Survival Run; Cerro Torre Enigma; North Face of Fitz Roy; Fitz Roy, First Ascent of the Southwest Buttress; Ice Climb; Odwrot (Retreat)

Survival Run
The moving portrait of two men pushing their limits: a blind runner and his sighted partner take on the Dipsea Race, a seven-mile trail over Mt. Tamalpais which rates as the toughest cross-country run in America.
• Directed by Robert Charlton. (1979, 12 mins, color, Print courtesy of filmmaker)

Cerro Torre Enigma
An evaluation of the disputed 1959 Andes peak ascent of Cesare Maestri and Tony Egger, as well as subsequent ascents.
• Directed by Leo Dickenson. (England, 1978, 38 mins, Print from filmmaker)

North Face of Fitz Roy
In horrendous weather conditions, a French team completes a first ascent of the north face of the beautiful and difficult Patagonian mountain at the Antarctic tip of South America.
• Directed by Jean Afanassieff. (France, 1980, 21 mins, Print from filmmaker)

Fitz Roy, First Ascent of the Southwest Buttress
The now classic documentary of four American climbers who persevered through two months of fierce Antarctic windstorms and living in ice caves to put up a new route on the Patagonian peak.
• Directed by Lito Tejada-Flores. (1969, 27 mins, Print from Crystal Productions)

Ice Climb
With the threat of falling ice and a changeable surface, three climbers scale Colorado's 500-foot frozen Bridalveil Falls.
• Directed by Scott Ransom. (1980, 13 mins, Print courtesy of ABC Sports)

Odwrot (Retreat)
The psychologically intense dramatization of a mountaineer's desperate and dangerous search for help when his partner is injured in a climbing accident.
• Directed by Jerzy Surdel. (Poland, 1969, 21 mins, 35mm, Print from Alex Bertulis)

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