Duct Tape Then Beer

We are all running. Some of us are running from something. Some of us run towards something. Sun comes up. Sun goes down. We run. And when that sun comes up again, we keep running.

Force is the collected footage from 10 years of Mikey Schaefer’s climbs, summits and misadventures in Patagonia woven together into a story of success, fear, joy and growth.

In the summer of 2011, mountaineer Kyle Dempster traveled the back roads of Kyrgyzstan on his bike. His goal: cross the country using old Soviet roads while climbing as many of the region's impressive peaks as possible. He was alone. He carried only a minimal ration of climbing gear. Ten Kyrgyz words complete its vocabulary. Part meditation on the true spirit of adventure and part epic travelogue, The Road from Karakol is the story of a unique spirit who cycled to the end of the road and decided to keep going.

A paddle-board journey down a remote stretch of river in Western Nepal isn’t a typical spring break trip for a kid. But that’s exactly what climbing guide David Morton sets out to do with his 7-year-old son, Thorne, in the spring of 2018. Through long stretches of flat-water, cliff jumping, broken fins and occasional rapids, what unfolds offers proof that even in today’s hyper-digital world, it’s possible to foster wildness in our kids.