Kendal Mountain Festival: The Film Edit - Summit Seekers Collection

Kendal Mountain Festival: The Film Edit - Summit Seekers

Mountain Roots: The Journey Home (11 mins)

A 9-year-old climber travels from Wyoming to the Italian Alps with her grandfather to scale a mountain together, embarking on a journey to reconnect their family after more than a century of separation.

Plastic Peak (15 mins)

Plastic Peak captures the resilience and fragility of the landscape, told through the voices of those who have dedicated themselves to preserving it. Spanning generations and backgrounds, our subjects share a common purpose: to confront the growing environmental threat to this iconic peak. More than anything, this film is an invitation—to reflect, to act, and to recognise our shared role in shaping a better future. This film is boldly urgent, uniquely Welsh, and universally understood.

Soundscape (14 mins)

Soundscape shares the sightless experience of climbing a mountain via echolocation, touch, and imagination.

To Know a Mountain (16 mins)

What does it take to know a mountain? Tired of all the stories focused on racing to the summit, Hannah Westhenry fell into the pages of her beloved book The Living Mountain, by Scottish writer & explorer Nan Shepherd. Inspired by Nan’s work, Hannah brings together a diverse group of women to follow in Nan's footsteps, adventuring into the UK's largest and wildest mountain range to tell a different story. The film interweaves visuals of the Cairngorms, from its grand landscapes to its smallest details, into an anti-summit story that promotes inclusion in the outdoors and represents a diversity of ways of being in the mountains not often told in adventure films.

Enchainment (29 mins)

Inspired by the human-powered enchainments achieved in Europe, in early summer 2021, Alastair McDowell & Hamish Fleming set out on a quest to enchain New Zealand’s 24 highest mountains above 3000 metres in a continuous 31-day push. This would be a transalpine journey, from west coast jungle to high-alpine summits, traversing some of New Zealand’s most dramatic landscapes. But with the clock ticking down, fatigue mounting, and storms arriving, would they be able to complete the project before their time, weather, & luck ran out?