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It's Not Just The Thin Air That's Breathtaking: The Documentary 'Mountain'

Filmmaker Jennifer Peedom seeks out the most forbidding places on the planet and finds stunning beauty — and the men and women willing to risk their lives to take it in.
A (very literal) mountain biker makes a base jump in Moab, Utah in the documentary <em>Mountain</em>.

One of the first shots in the new documentary called, simply enough, Mountain, is of a solo climber hanging from a the face of a cliff, hundreds of feet up ... untethered.

He's in sneakers, a red t-shirt, entirely without ropes or special gear, every And all I could think was ... he's .

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