The Producers

Nic has been involved in the documentary industry for almost two decades. His breakthrough success twenty years ago with San Valentin, a mountaineering film about a South African expedition to Patagonia. This documentary won Nic a Banff International Film Festival award and took him from strength to strength in developing a niche in the adventure documentary market. Some of Nic’s award winning films are: Oceans of Fear, San Valentin, Desert Friction, 90 Minutes Closer to Antigua, Flying Dagger and Heaven’s Gate.

Making The Film

One day I bumped into Alex Honnold, arguably the world’s best-known rock climber. Alex was passing through Cape Town; he was on safari in South Africa. I asked him if he was interested in coming back to climb and star in a film, and he agreed. Alex suggested Hazel Findlay as a co-star, Alex had met Hazel on a National Geographic climbing trip in the Middle East a year before. Hazel had always wanted to come to South Africa, he said. I thought a female lead with a British accent would work well for the film. It did.