The Wall Climb for Gold - Official Film Website

THE FILM

A uniquely emotional documentary feature film that will touch the heart of audiences around the world. Four female climbers face the sporting challenge of a lifetime as they attempt to compete in the first ever Olympic climbing competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The Wall - Climb for Gold follows four elite climbers, Janja Garnbret, Shauna Coxsey, Brooke Raboutou, and Miho Nonaka, over an extraordinary two years. They battle through Olympic qualifying events to earn their place at Tokyo, then face a gruelling season of competition and training that sees everything put on hold when the Covid-19 pandemic forces the Games to be postponed. As the young women confront their own mental and physical demons en-route to Tokyo, the film reveals an astonishing and inspiring insight into what it takes to be an Olympian and ultimately what it means to be human.

THE CAST

GREAT BRITAIN

Strong, determined and immensely tough, Shauna is the most successful British competition climber in history, having won back-to-back world titles in 2016 & 2017. After fighting her way back to form following an injury-plagued couple of seasons, she could be one of the strongest contenders in Tokyo. She looked her old self with a record-shattering performance at the Olympic qualifiers in Hachioji, but this was quickly followed by a slew of operations and months in rehab after injuries to her knee and wrist. With the pandemic putting the 2020 climbing season on hold and another year to prepare for the Olympics, will her monumental resilience see her fight her way back to the top?

SLOVENIA

Janja Garnbret is a phenomenon. A child prodigy raised in a small town in Slovenia, she's taken the climbing world by storm. With 13 world titles under her belt, she has already been described as the best 'pound for pound' rock climber of all time. But for Janja, the greatest challenges may be internal. For the first time in her career, a succession of unprecedented falls during the end of the 2019 season meant she failed to make it through to the finals of a major competition. An unfortunate slip, or the first sign of vulnerability in a previously indomitable spirit? Will a new coach and an enforced period of 'lockdown' reflection bring her incomparable talent back on form?

JAPAN

As the 2018 Bouldering World Cup champion, and a Tokyo native, Miho has an entire nation's hopes on her shoulders. In the 2019 Japan Cup, she claimed three titles – for bouldering, speed, and combined climbing. She is Japan's best shot at beating Slovenia. But it's not just pressure that Miho has to deal with - reoccurring shoulder injuries are stifling her undeniable talent, the strain of the COVID-19 lockdown takes its toll. Even as a host nation, some in Japan don't even want the Olympics to go ahead. Can she overcome all the doubters, and the pressure of a home Games, to achieve her dream?

USA

At 18 years old, Brooke is one of the youngest contenders for Olympic qualification, but her fierce talent and impressive experience belies her age. Both her mother and father were World Cup climbing champions in the 1990s and played a big role in the birth of competition climbing. Now, Brooke is juggling her Olympic preparation with the pressures of life as a college student in San Diego, and the mounting media attention that comes with being one of America's rising stars. Still a teenager, have the Olympics come too early for Brooke? And is the weight of the family legacy too much to bear?