High Hazard

Where mountaineers are made

193518m
DocumentaryAdventure

Britain's first complete rock climbing film, by Stanley Watson. A film about climbing in the Lakes. Norah Johnstone, a teacher at Keswick Grammar School and later Watson's wife, starred as a Victorian climber. The film includes footage of Stanley Watson himself climbing Kern Knotts blindfolded and a young girl, Vivian Verity, whose first climb at aged 9 was up Napes Needle. Stanley Watson is a keystone in the history of British climbing. He established the British Mountain Guides Organisation in 1930.

Crew

SW

Stanley Watson

Director

Cast

George Abraham

George Abraham

self

SW

Stanley Watson

self

VV

Vivian Verity

self

JW

Jerry Wright

self

HJ

Helen Johnstone

self

NW

Norah Watson

self

DU

Dunbar Usher

self

LB

Le Breton Martin

narrator

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