Jesse Huey

An exploration into grief and its expression through the stories of individuals who have experienced loss or trauma due to climbing or alpinism. Made in collaboration with the Climbing Grief Fund, this artful compilation of interviews highlights how there is no singular or correct way to grieve. Climbers discuss how they are learning to integrate grief into their daily lives and in effect, change the community’s collective narrative surrounding this topic. The film investigates the paradoxes of grief and the grieving process while mirroring this complexity back to viewers as a starting point to destigmatize and normalize the conversation surrounding grief for climbers and non-climbers alike.

The winter of 2014 was a big snow year in Southern Utah. When Scott Adamson and his compadres set out to explore these high desert canyons, there was one recorded ice climb. What they found would forever change the way we see desert climbing.

K6 West is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in K6. It was directed by Wiktor Skupiński in 2014 and produced by Latitude Films. It features Jesse Huey, Raphael Slawinski, Ian Welsted, Hajji Ghulam Rasol and Farhan Shahid.