Get outdoors while staying indoors.
While your #LOWALOCKDOWN adventures may ease a very small part of our adventurer pain while in lockdown. We have no doubt that you feel like you have an itch you just can't scratch. To give you some further relief, we thought we would compile a list of the most epic adventure films we could, to help you virtually disconnect to some of the most insane locations the world has to offer. To build this list we reached out to our LOWA Pro Team to see what their number one picks were. All of the options are available online with links provided.
Prepare to be inspired and blown away!
Without further ado, the list in no particular order is:
Further by Jeremy Jones
Recommended by Sophie Piearcey - @sophiepiearcey - www.notesofanortherner.com
Available to rent or purchase: YouTube & Google Play
Jeremy Jones explores remote mountain terrain by camping deep in the back country and on the summits of un-ridden lines. He is able to access nearly vertical spines and wide-open powder fields to push his mind and body to the limit.
Free Solo
Recommended by Rach Stewart - @rachstewartnz - www.rachstewartphotography.com
Available to watch on: Disney+ (If you don't have an account you could make the most of the 7-Dary Free Trial)
Professional rock climber Alex Honnold attempts to conquer the first free solo climb of famed El Capitan's 900-metre vertical rock face at Yosemite National Park.
Meru
Recommended by Harrison Candlin - @harrisoncandlin - www.harrisoncandlin.com
Available to rent or purchase: YouTube & Google Play
Meru is a 2015 documentary film chronicling the first ascent of the "Shark's Fin" route on Meru Peak in the Indian Himalayas. It was co-directed by married couple Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and won the U.S. Audience Documentary Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Banff Mountain Film Festival
Recommended by Robert Bruce - @gottogetout_adventures - www.facebook.com/gottogetout
Available for free: Epic Films for the Great Indoors
"While I'm at home I keep myself busy brainstorming and planning future adventures, walking my dogs and tidying my adventure-cupboards! In my downtime I've been really enjoying this series of Banf Mountain Film Festival short-films (tag https://www.facebook.com/BanffMountainFilmFestival/). The are free of charge to watch and it's a bit like having the film festival in your living room. I've watched the first five this week and love them all! Short and sweet, a little bit of inspiration to inspire viewers they've #gottogetout, when this lockdown is over :) " - Robert Bruce
Who We Are by Donnie Vincent
Recommended by NZ Hunter - @nzhunter_official - www.nzhunter.co.nz
Available for free: Who We Are
"Don't confuse me with being anything else other than proud. Proud to be a hunter. It's time we stop apologizing for how we get our protein. This is who we are. Unless you’re a small time rancher, small time farmer, a hunter or fishermen... you really have no idea where your food comes from. Most people don’t even think about it. Well, we think about it. ” - Donnie Vincent.
Willie Duley From NZ Hunter also mentioned their epic NZ Hunter Adventures episodes on TVNZ On Demand... Particularly season 5, episode 1 which has hunting, mountaineering & packrafting.
Available for free: TVNZ Ondemand
Everest
Recommended by Alex Hilary - @alexhilary - www.alexanderhillary.com
Available to rent or purchase: YouTube & Google Play
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
The Art of Flight
Recommended by The LOWA Team - @lowaaunz
Available to rent or purchase: YouTube & Google Play
Curt Morgan and Travis Rice create the world's most progressive snowboard film by combining cutting-edge cinematography, stunning locales and the best freestyle snowboarding ever captured.
