Fear and rock: Austrian climbers Andrea Maruna (beginning to climb again after a serious fall) and Angelika Rainer display their unbending will to battle the mountain’s mental and physical challenges.
“I think you have to listen to what you feel yourself in your own body and that is what gives you more strength than the doctors who say, ‘No, that won’t function anymore,’” Andrea Maruna.
Winter road trip: photographer Luke Humphrey treks from Seattle to California, capturing images of Mono Lake and Redwood, Sequoia, Yosemite, and Death Valley National Parks.
Freestyle history lesson with snurfer creator Sherman Poppen, and interviews with three of the sport’s seminal personalities Terry Kidwell, Jake Burton, and Terje Haakonsen–as they helped shape and evolve the current day mountain culture.
The 1980s: “Snowboarding was now a lifestyle with fluorescent outwear, rounded tail snowboard designs, and plenty of rebellious motivation…”
The notorious, and well-respected Holeman Brothers (fly fishing captains Travis and Bryan “Bear”) like to spend a few days each January fishing the Gulf Coast for large, Louisiana redfish. Winter generally is considered prime time for hunting record-setting reds in the Biloxi Marsh and Chandeleur Islands surrounding New Orleans. Drum is World Angling’s full length movieabout the guides and redfishing culture of southeastern Louisiana.
Sheriffs of surfing’s wild west: For generations, the lifeguards of Oahu’s North Shore have pioneered a selfless spirit of helping others in need. This short film “traces the rich history of lifeguarding, going back to the legendary Duke Kahanamoku and Eddie Aikau,” in addition to profiling the modern day Pipeline, where highly skilled lifeguards protect surfers from the ocean’s unpredictable and bruising swell.
Jersey Bros: A Surfing Life and the South Jersey Stoke: is documentary detailing the unheralded surfers and passed over locales of the Garden State. Filmmaker David McCarty writes, “It’s not about sick rides, gnarly tubes, and 40 foot walls of water. It’s about passion. It’s about sacrifice. It’s about the stoke. But mostly, it’s about surfers, in all their flawed humanity.”
“If you’re a boulderer and are drawn to the tall, proud lines, it’s not a matter of whether you’re going to get hurt or not, it’s a question of when…”
The Season | Episode 3: Boulderer Anya Miller battles ACL tears, nine separate surgeries on her left knee, and the mental “tendencies” that may have contributed to her injuries.
Rum Cay, Bahamas: Is there a good reason to hook bull sharks from a standup paddleboard? Ron Jon team rider Mikey DeTemple and friends try to answer this question with cut bait and beers.
Swedish filmmakers Adam Falk and Nicke Jacobsson document riders on Stockholm handrails as part of an “urban mission.” And later–the Swiss Alps for a big powder trip.