Peter Mortimer

The definitive film on the climb that captured headlines and ignited imaginations worldwide. Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson ascend the hardest big wall of all time: a 19 day ascent of The Dawn Wall, on the 3,000 foot vertical face of El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park. The film travels deeper than the climb, digging into the history of the climbers and painting an intimate portrait of Caldwell's harrowing life experiences that culminated in a single-minded drive to complete this impossible climb. The Dawn Wall is a heart-warming and inspiring movie that celebrates perseverance, camaraderie, and the universal spirit of dreaming big, and never giving up.

In high-end modern rock climbing, 5.15 is the top of the difficulty scale, a grade achieved by only a few men and never by a woman. Margo Hayes, a little known 19-year-old from Boulder, Colorado, is determined to change that. To be closer to the world’s hardest routes, she has moved to Europe, where she trains and climbs with the goal of succeeding on two of the most iconic 5.15s in France and Spain. But pushing her body and mind to the absolute limit, she risks injury and failure in her quest to be the first.

Rock climber Alex Honnold attempts to set a world record by free-soloing a trio of harrowing cliffs without safety lines. Honnold plans to scale the faces of Yosemite National Park's Triple Crown. And he plans to do it all in under 24 hours.

Showdown at Horseshoe Hell is a documentary about rock climbing that takes place in Horseshoe Canyon Ranch. It was directed by Peter Mortimer in 2015 and produced by Sender Films. It is a part of the series Reel Rock 10. It features Nic Berry, Mason Earle and Alex Honnold.

High and mighty is a documentary about bouldering. It was directed by Peter Mortimer in 2015 and produced by Sender Films. It is a part of the series Reel Rock 10. It features Daniel Woods.

Dawn Wall exclusive is a documentary about rock climbing that takes place in El Capitan. It was directed by Peter Mortimer in 2015 and produced by Sender Films. It is a part of the series Reel Rock 10. It features Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson.

In February, 2014, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell became the first climbers to complete the coveted Fitz Traverse, a massive route that follows the iconic skyline of the Fitz Roy massif in southern Patagonia  This film tells the epic tale of their groundbreaking ascent and is the feature film of the 2015 REEL ROCK Film Tour.  I was hired by BigUp Productions to climb and shoot with Honnold and Caldwell in the rugged mountains of the Chalten massif in Patagonia to provide footage to help tell this story.

The First Accent climbing video features today's top rock climbers as they lay siege to steep faces and soaring alpine walls in pursuit of climbing's pinnacle achievement - the First Ascent. Mortimer brings us on a globetrotting journey to capture the laughs, the tears and the truly radical feats of men and woman on climbing's cutting edge.

Narrated by acclaimed actor Peter Sarsgaard (Garden State, Jarhead, An Education) and produced by Emmy Award-Winning Sender Films with Big UP Productions, Valley Uprising deftly recounts the history of Yosemite’s bold tradition: half a century of struggle against the laws of gravity, and the laws of the land.

The swiss machine is a documentary about rock climbing that takes place in Eiger and Matterhorn. It was directed by Peter Mortimer in 2010 and produced by Sender Films. It is a part of the series Reel Rock 2010 (Reel Rock 5). It features Ueli Steck, Volker Leuchsner, Simon Anthamatten, Simone Moro, Freddie Wilkinson, Alex Honnold and others.

The Sensei is a documentary about rock climbing that takes place in Mount Kinabalu and El Capitan. It was directed by Peter Mortimer in 2013 and produced by Sender Films. It is a part of the series Reel Rock 8. It features Yuji Hirayama, Daniel Woods, Sachi Amma, James Pearson, Caroline Ciavaldini, Hans Florine and others.

The impossible climb is a documentary about rock climbing that takes place in Clark Mountain and Margalef. It was directed by Josh Lowell in 2009 and produced by Sender Films. It is a part of the series First ascent - The series (3/7). It features Chris Sharma, Boone Speed, Andrew Bisharat, Randy Leavitt, Daila Ojeda, Patxi Usobiaga and others.