Mount Poi

The verified record for Mount Poi places it in the Prealpi Bergamasche Centrali of Italy, with an elevation listed around 1,360 metres. As presented in those facts, it is a mountain within a mid‑elevation Alpine context rather than a tropical or equatorial wall; that geographic information frames what to expect from any route‑finding and access in the area.

The film linked to this entry, Of Choss and Lions, however, follows Cedar Wright and Alex Honnold on an expedition described in the film material as taking them to climb a feature called "Mt. Poi," presented in the film as an enormous, largely unclimbed big wall objective. The piece is shot and produced with expedition resources and plays as a classic first‑ascent attempt: logistical planning, route reconnaissance on poor rock, and the intermittently comic banter between partners all feature heavily. For a viewer, the value of the film is practical and documentary — it shows how teams manage uncertain rock quality, how they weigh ambition against safety, and how a high‑commitment objective often becomes an exercise in fieldcraft, communication and improvisation. While the catalogue facts situate Mount Poi in the Italian Prealps, the film uses the name for a very different expeditionary narrative; watching both gives a sense of how the same name can refer to very different climbing experiences, and how big‑wall expedition culture adapts to radically different terrain and rock reliability.