The movies are having a mountain-climbing moment. More than a moment, really — it’s been building since 2018, the year that saw the release of not one but two jaw-dropping, vertigo-inducing, heart-in-the-throat documentaries, “Free Solo” and “The Dawn Wall,” that took you right up to the places that climbers crave and that most of us wouldn’t dare to go near. But as these films demonstrate, we might well dream of it. The new mountaineering movies are delirious vicarious cinema, employing technological means and a filmmaking bravado that comes with them that would have been unimaginable three or four decades ago….
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