The Long Hope (2011)

St Johns head on the Island of Hoy is a wild and remote 1150 foot sea cliff It was first climbed in 1970 by climber and poet Ed Drummond together with Oliver Hill They took 7 days to climb the cliff sleeping on ledges and in hammocks along the way Now 40 years later one of the Worlds top climbers Dave MacLeod sets out to climb the cliff in a single day finishing with a new desperately hard final pitch up the headwallMacleods historic new climb The Longhope Route Direct E11 is captured closeup with the latest HD cameras and contrasted with the challenges of Drummonds first ascent through interviews and archive material The film also follows Drummond now in his late sixties and suffering from Parkinsons disease as he makes a pilgrimage back to St Johns Head to look upon the route one last time