Dawn Wall Movie Review. The movie goes very in depth into tommy caldwell’s life story and the experiences that led him to el cap in the first place. The dawn wall makes a nice double bill with free solo.
Chronicling the daring attempt of a pair of rock climbers to scale the notoriously steep face of yosemite’s el capitan, “the dawn wall” transcends initial conventional sports documentary. Tommy caldwell didn’t see inhospitable terrain, but rather a puzzle almost a kilometer tall. At the age of 22, the climbing prodigy was taken hostage by rebels in kyrgyzstan.
In january, 2015, american rock climbers tommy caldwell and kevin jorgeson captivated the world with their effort to climb the dawn wall, a seemingly impossible 3,000 foot rock face in yosemite.
I can handle the truth. But for tommy caldwell, the dawn wall was much more than just a climb. The culmination of this would lead, with kevin jorgeson, to attempting. September 16, 2020 january 17, 2019.