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“The Ascent Begins”: The massive Bern Stadium carries the roars of 17,000 fans, setting the stage for a World Championship like no other. Voices of different male and female climbers describe the growth of climbing, their love for the sport, and what winning means to them. Produced with the support of the International Federation of Sport Climbing.

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A good example of how to make a bad climbing documentary, sensationalist, biased and with a dark perspective on the composition. One perspective of so many that can be had by observing any sport, if you are a dark person you will pay attention to this, if you are otherwise you will pay attention to many other things and will compose a good example of a good documentary of any sport competition.

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Janja was so overpowered that she is portrayed as a villain. Madara-like aura.

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The drama and competitiveness was a big over-egged if you ask me and only non-athletes voicing those thoughts but I loved the emotions. Thank you for giving us such an raw and honest look behind the curtains Jenya and Alannah!

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@Rocky-k6z5k
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It’s really a shame to put so much drama and so little climbing in a documentary about… climbing. We barely see the athletes doing their moves and performances. Very very disappointing

@pleypley7
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They should go more outdoor climbing to reconnect themself with the roots of this beautiful sport.

@paulheimweh
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Thank you Steve! ❤

@tarot_esoterica_with_erin
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There’s a one minute ad every 3 minutes in this video. What is this unwatchable garbage?

@MKW_K9
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This video just made me understand how annoying Jenya is

@wongrajon5474
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obsessed with how they chose to introduce janja

@Lena-tk7lm
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Best comp climbing docu out there.

@SM-sg9em
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This video leaves such a bad message about sports and climbing community. I can understand that high levels sports comes with high level competition, but its another thing entirely to portrait climbers as enemys, or like janja is portrayed in this docummentary. National Geographic could treat this docummentary hoever they wanted, and they choosed a reality tv aproach that is negative for sports, commaraderie and, ultimatly, love for sports and community. Awful piece of media.

@joacochaco
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thank you fo diz, natgeo.
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oh wow jellybean.
as a non-athlete, diz was totally and incredibly inspirin' to watch.
da almost unbearable pressure dey put on themselves tho.
anyhoo, we totallytotallyTOTALLY stan these awesomazing peepz.
you're also climbin' everest after class ayt???
yesh. datz da spirit.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
kweeeeeeeeeeeeeen lakhpa sherpa shall meet yo at da top.
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@tave-e4w
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Honestly, I am not a big fan of the documentary's style. Matt Groom is always overacting with his exaggerated facial expression (1:04 for example) and over-excited statements, the music score is overly dramatic, the narrative tells a story which is in huge part not backed up by the footage we see. I am not saying the climbing scene is just a bunch of good friends, nobody cares who is winning and everybody is just having a good time, either. I feel like this documentary was pitched in a certain way and then they had to stick to it although it doesn’t give the best result. I still enjoy the insights and most of the footage, but the editing style is…not my taste, to say the least offending.

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Please don't stop making these! Such a great series

@victorvieira7469
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This is awesome!!! I climbed as a younger. Nowadays disc golf os my love. I've caddied for a lot of women that are way better than I ever was!!!

@stevefranke3985
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This is awesome!!! I climbed as a younger. Nowadays disc golf os my love. I've caddied for a lot of women that are way better than I ever was!!!

@stevefranke3985
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Drive to Survive, but climbing version

@FeFinotto
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Oh drama, the magic seasoning of film production.

@jusssimplycant
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We need to get away from this nationality thinking. we need to see just the people. we climb together on one planet. nations are just constructions in our heads. 🏴

@tomega4967
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So glad such documentaries are finally being made for this sport!

@ghinwamoujaes9059
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thank's a lot

@henripoulet1740
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Espidie 3

@sergiorclmbng2888
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Phenomenal series, and props to the editor on this episode!

@cocapoola
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Thank you so much for these grate content. amazing footage and story telling. Climbing is a very big futuristic sport.

@danielduranduran-g1q
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Great video I thoroughly enjoyed it. I appreciate highlighting that all competitors feel the stress.

@patrickgoogle4011
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I really think that this kind of "Drive to Survive" note that this documentary has does not represent the climbing I know... Yes it is a sport and athletes want to win, but it is not the hunger games and kindness and humility are still values of this sport, which I don't see depicted here.

@gsd1994-u6x
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this is currently the best video about modern climbing on the internet (I've seen them all)

@snakejazz5980
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this is what we needed after this season of comps

@fx__________
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I really don’t like the over enthusiastic narration.

@niczzzs
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Fantastic! It's so moving to see a wide array of emotions beautifully and authentically depicted against the broad drama of the Bern World Championship comp. Especially interesting to watch the BTS a year later, after the Paris Olympics. ❤

@Sylviology
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This is a show, that I really liked to see. But I don’t like Disney. It’s so bad that we can’t see National Geographic in another Chanel.

@arquidelphos
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I hate when politics and sports get mixed up... plus the drama...

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