High Hazard

High Hazard

Where mountaineers are made

1935 en 18 minutes

Rating: 0

Plot

Britain's first complete rock climbing film, by Stanley Watson. A film about climbing in the Lakes. Norah Johnstone, a teacher at Keswick Grammar School and later Watson's wife, starred as a Victorian climber. The film includes footage of Stanley Watson himself climbing Kern Knotts blindfolded and a young girl, Vivian Verity, whose first climb at aged 9 was up Napes Needle. Stanley Watson is a keystone in the history of British climbing. He established the British Mountain Guides Organisation in 1930.

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Cast

George Abraham

George Abraham

self

Stanley Watson

Stanley Watson

self

Vivian Verity

Vivian Verity

self

Jerry Wright

Jerry Wright

self

Helen Johnstone

Helen Johnstone

self

Norah Watson

Norah Watson

self

Dunbar Usher

Dunbar Usher

self

Le Breton Martin

Le Breton Martin

narrator

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