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THE NEW KID: W/SAVANNAH CUMMINS, ANA PFAFF, CONRAD ANKER, JIMMY CHIN, CEDAR WRIGHT AND ALEX HONNOLD

he North Face gang go to Antarctica and have adventures. This short film is another one that blurs the line between doers and documenters, between what is the scene and what is behind the scenes. Expeditions have long had the pressure of being recorded in order to justify their existence, and so we might ask that if a peak is climbed in the middle of the ice forest and no one is around does it

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