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Aspiring

Short Film (Full Length) – 1972

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This 1972 NFU documentary follows three climbers (Hugh Canard, Neil Hamilton and pioneering guide Bruce Jenkinson) on an ascent of Mt Aspiring. Directed and photographed by Grant Foster (Land of Birds), the beautifully-shot short film heads up country in the Land Rover. Rivers are crossed in the sun, then the climbers rope up and get the pick axes out. It’s tea, food and harmonica in the hut, then a pre-dawn start (“hell it’s cold!”) before cutting steps and leaping crevasses up the “matterhorn of the south”. The film screened on PBS in the United States.

Hell it's cold!
– From the narration

Key Cast & Crew

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Ron Bowie

Producer

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Don Richardson

Composer

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Geoffrey Scott

Executive Producer

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Brian Shennan

Sound

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Grant Foster

Camera, Director