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The Verdon Gorge, The Origin of Sport Climbing
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Synopsis

Released in 2016, the short film by Keith Ladzinski, Josh Povec, and Andy Mann traces the origins of sport climbing in the legendary Verdon Gorge, which Americans inevitably compare to the US Grand Canyon. The Verdon is where climbing flourished in the 1970s.