Director: Renan Öztürk
Two of the most recognizable names in modern climbing point themselves at a granite spire few people have even heard of, and "The Devil's Climb" turns their attempt into a tense, close-up 2024 documentary.
What is The Devil's Climb about?
Alaska's Devils Thumb is not famous the way El Capitan or Everest are; it's remote, weather-battered, and largely ignored by climbing media, which is part of why Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell chose it. The film follows the two friends as they fly into the range, set up camp in brutal cold, and start working out a route up a mountain that has turned back or killed more experienced parties than it has let through. Rather than framing the climb as a straightforward triumph story, the documentary spends real time on the friction between them: different risk tolerances, different climbing styles, and the strain of trusting someone else's judgment when a single mistake on the ice could be fatal. Weather windows open and close, plans get scrapped and rebuilt, and the camera stays close enough to catch the exhaustion and doubt that rarely make it into climbing highlight reels. What emerges is less about conquering a peak than about what two people owe each other when the stakes are this real.
Cast & crew
The film centers on climbers Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell, both already known to documentary audiences for prior high-stakes ascents, directed by Renan Öztürk, who brings his own mountaineering background to how the climbing sequences are shot and paced.
Context & significance
"The Devil's Climb" sits in the same lineage as other recent adventure documentaries that trade spectacle for psychological detail, using a genuinely dangerous objective as a lens on partnership rather than pure adrenaline. At a lean 75 minutes, it moves quickly, favoring tight, well-chosen footage over padded narration. Holding a 7.2 rating on IMDb, it's been received as a smaller, more intimate entry in the climbing-documentary genre compared to bigger festival hits, appealing to viewers who want the human friction alongside the vertical drama.
Where & how to watch
"The Devil's Climb" is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow every exchange on the mountain clearly. The page itself is free to browse for anyone; watching the film requires logging into a K-Time account, and the platform's Farsi-language interface is built with Persian-speaking audiences in mind.