Wampler's Ascent
Wampler's Ascent
Wampler's Ascent takes the audience into the harried, sometimes terrifying and always
difficult world of elite rock climbing. Set in Yosemite National Park, El Capitan Mountain
is the biggest sheer rock face in the world. In fact, only 50% of all climbers who attempt
to make it to the top actually complete the task.
Wampler's Ascent is a story about Steve Wampler, a husband, father of two, engineer
and person with a severe form of Cerebral Palsy. He lives his life in an electric
wheelchair, and has the limited use of only one limb (his right arm). Steve cannot drive,
use a fork or button his own shirt, but he did 20,000 pull-ups and slept on the rock for
five nights to make it to the summit. His limitations might be quite obvious to the people
around him, but while Steve can literally do only two things with his left arm, grasp and
pull, he used his spirit and deep will to heave himself up the mountain. He suffered with
both hallucinations, severe dehydration and was unconscious twice, but on the sixth day
of both terror and torture, he had completed his mission not for himself but more
importantly, to show children all over the world with disabilities that they could do
anything they put their minds to, in spite of challenges facing them. Wampler's Ascent is
an up-lifting, incredible tale of will-power and mind-over-matter that will surely leave the
viewer inspired and up lifted.
“It’s an inspiration for every one of us every single day. It’s one of the greatest
challenges in rock climbing: El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and for a climber with
Cerebral Palsy, it’s a lesson in matching the giant spirit to a gigantic American
heart... ...SIMPLY AMAZING!” -Diane Sawyer, ABC News
difficult world of elite rock climbing. Set in Yosemite National Park, El Capitan Mountain
is the biggest sheer rock face in the world. In fact, only 50% of all climbers who attempt
to make it to the top actually complete the task.
Wampler's Ascent is a story about Steve Wampler, a husband, father of two, engineer
and person with a severe form of Cerebral Palsy. He lives his life in an electric
wheelchair, and has the limited use of only one limb (his right arm). Steve cannot drive,
use a fork or button his own shirt, but he did 20,000 pull-ups and slept on the rock for
five nights to make it to the summit. His limitations might be quite obvious to the people
around him, but while Steve can literally do only two things with his left arm, grasp and
pull, he used his spirit and deep will to heave himself up the mountain. He suffered with
both hallucinations, severe dehydration and was unconscious twice, but on the sixth day
of both terror and torture, he had completed his mission not for himself but more
importantly, to show children all over the world with disabilities that they could do
anything they put their minds to, in spite of challenges facing them. Wampler's Ascent is
an up-lifting, incredible tale of will-power and mind-over-matter that will surely leave the
viewer inspired and up lifted.
“It’s an inspiration for every one of us every single day. It’s one of the greatest
challenges in rock climbing: El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and for a climber with
Cerebral Palsy, it’s a lesson in matching the giant spirit to a gigantic American
heart... ...SIMPLY AMAZING!” -Diane Sawyer, ABC News
Genre
Documentary,
Family
Web Site
Runtime
77
Language
English
Director
Elizabeth Wampler
Played at
Beverly Hills
Lumiere Music Hall
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