To The Limit

Filmgoers who get dizzy standing at the stop of a flight of stairs will probably experience quite a bit of vertigo watching Pepe Danquart's documentary about a pair of Bavarian brothers who share a deep love for extreme mountaineering. Their feelings toward each other, however, turn out to be far more complex.

In the autumn in 2005, Thomas Huber and his brother Alexander traveled to California's Yosemite Valley to do what many climbing enthusiast have done for the past 5 decades: Scale the 3000-foot sheer granite rock formation known as El Capitan. The Yosemite brochure estimates the average climbing time at anywhere from three to five days, but Thomas and ...