Nelson Carayannis

Nalle Hukkatiaval is driven by first ascents. For him, the moment of actually climbing a boulder problem is secondary —a mere 10%— compared to the hard work of actually unearthing the line. But just because you have the vision of how a sequence should unfold doesn’t guarantee that you can do the moves. Is it too hard? Does it even go? This film documents Nalle’s battle with one of America’s hardest boulder problems: Sleepwalker V16 (8C+), in Black Velvet Canyon (Nevada), a project he could not complete in 2018 when he started it, and since then, only ascended by Jimmy Webb and Daniel Woods.

A comprehensive look into the major centres of hard climbing and the characters who define them - the film features Chris Sharma and Steph Davis amongst many others and is shot on location in Moab, Bishop. The New River Gorge, Catalunya plus many more famous climbing areas.