How to Climb a Mountain

How to Climb a Mountain

| 30 min

In this short documentary vignette, members of the Alpine Club of Canada display their skill and talk to host Fred Davis about why they climb. The film take us to a ten-thousand-foot peak in Yoho National Park, a practice slope on Grouse Mountain near Vancouver, and a steep precipice known as Devil's Leap, providing ample scope for a demonstration of mountain climbing.

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How to Climb a Mountain, Walford Hewitson, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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Credits
  • director
    Walford Hewitson
  • producer
    Robert Anderson
  • photography
    Len Chatwin
    Donald Wilder
  • editing
    Marion Meadows
    David Mayerovitch
  • host
    Fred Davis

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