Arc'teryx Presents: On The Verge
Arc'teryx Presents: On The Verge
In the mountains behind the sleepy coastal town of Powell River, BC, a small group of rock climbers has spent decades quietly pioneering routes on some of the largest granite walls in Canada. As the last stands of old-growth trees harboured in these valleys come under threat of logging, the climbing community faces the uncertain future of a place that has come to define their lives and legacies.
Confronted with the decision to fight for these last ancient trees and potentially lose access or look away as the valley is stripped for timber, On The Verge is a snapshot of outdoors culture in British Columbia. The way we reconcile industries that give us access to the wilderness with the destruction they cause. The desire to protect our backyard but keep it for ourselves at the same time. The importance of these places to the people who have shaped them and been shaped by them in return.
Amazing. Incredible. Stunning. Beautiful. I’ve just summarized 95% of the comments for you.
Doubt I will ever even make it there in my life. Maybe for a woman. Lol
The Government needs to make a law not allowing any tree over 500 years old to be cut.
Hey, Powell River! More bits of the old home town, exposed to the world. It’s August, time to be picking blackberries along the pole line road, along with the black bears. And snorkling in the sunwarmed ocean. Best place to grow up on the planet.
Beautiful
Wonderful
my mom works at Arc’teryx
SUPERB film. Just superb. Its my deep hope that this outdoor industry is truly the catalyst for finding harmony between our capitalism, and wilderness preservation values.
This is amazing, so powerful. I lived in Whistler BC for 2 years, and this rings close to home.
Its disgusting what we (human-kind) do to this earth. It is disgusting. I’m watching this the same week as the announcements about a 60% decline in wildlife populations in the last 50 years.
Its a beautiful film and I understand the position of the climbers, but too many excuses are being made here for the logging industry that will profiteer from woods/ forests that cannot be replaced – the ancient old growth, that should belong to the earth and to all, not to any single landowner driven by avarice. Its not about saving a patch that coincides with a great wall, its about saving all old growth forests. Not just in British Columbia, but worldwide.
Buildings are ‘listed’ and protected in many countries over a certain age, the same should exist for forests.
Great film. Hopefully they can partner with the province or BC Parks Foundation (https://bcparksfoundation.ca/) and save this pristine area.
Hello from the amazon, how can we stop this?
Can you say "passive aggressive", boys and girls? These people pretend to support peace and then proceed to live out their activism vicariously through aimless unfortunates who riot, loot, burn, beat, intimidate, and kill on U.S. streets.
Wonderful people in this film 🙂 Love the spirit of nature and to find ways to preserve it. Money this paper and metal and now its digital numbers with out value. Wonder if the people in small societys could go to the stock market togther- If a small society start to save a montly sum of mony in 3 different categoy. And all the socyetys can se the development on the money. Find a house were people can meet and set ut a computer with the program from one stock market place who helps you to get started. Collect the people and start to save money. This idea come to me when I was saving money…salla amount a month…nothing happens 🙁 then I tought If i save whit some others then somthing will happen faster of course. Then I understood that where is all the mony whitout stop..In Find out a way so everybody can save som monthlu sum. Then find out what to save in what company in the stock market!! So insted of other peopel pacing my money I can learn to do it my selfe. So if we are a lot of people with good intentions we can do a lot with our joint nolages. This is an Idea not an answer to all moneyproblems but I am sick of all this big banks and companys who dictates all the rules. Small socyetys have to find ways to survive and find the place were the mony is so we can paly at the same level. Tanks for a beutiful film and the spirit of the love for the earht
I can’t believe this was 40 minutes! It felt more like 15 or 20. I don’t think I’ve ever been so immersed in a documentary before.
"Who can stand in the way, when there’s a dollar to be made" The natural worlds demise has become our entertainment. The tragic irony. Kiss it all goodbye, just a matter of time.
Amazing forest! Very sad to see it get lost bit by bit.
Damn, maybe if Arc’teryx wasn’t such a wasteful company, there might be more trees!
Can someone please tell me what the music is called at the end of the film? It is soooo beautiful but I couldn’t find it…
Ah yes, another group with the luxury of being well off enough to be able to devote their time to killing other people’s method of earning living.
You don’t care about the trees, you care about your playground.
I think photographers would love to come to your beautiful area.
wow beautiful! my father grew up in Powell River in the 60’s and often hunted those areas in the 70"s. But he never mentioned the rock climbing potential.
Save the trees we’ll visit.
Canada still a colony, good only for selling raw materials, but the crying time is very close…
Mans hiking in crocs 32:57
the more human babies in this dirt ball the less wild spaces we have
Thank you so much Christy for being the impetus behind this beautiful film! It brought back some lovely memories of our good times with you and Colin and the local climbing community in the beautiful campground you guys developed. Even though we are not climbers, this area is a great base from which to explore and hike the surrounding alpine, esp Emma Lake. I wish there was more we could do to save it!
The people we see and hear in this video are the same ones electing and condoning politicians who allow rioters to run roughshod all over the northwestern communities. Arson, murder, brutality towards law enforcement, and total anarchy is acceptable because they don’t like the man in the White House.
I used to respect these far left tree huggers on the other side of the political aisle, but now we know who they really are.
Amazingly captured with a powerful message. Forestry isn’t the villain, it’s how it’s being done. Love this, thank you! (hopefully I can see this in person!)
I understand its just as bad for the forest to prevent anything from destroying them – fire mainly. Could not houghtful, strategic logging be a compromise to this? Great film by the way. If you like this one – you might also like the Patagonia Film about the Boundary Waters – advertisement/environmental activist film.
We seriously need to stop deforestation. Now
30:16 they’re showing the difference of old growth and newer growth lumber but one is quarter sawn and the other flat sawn I really wish they didnt do something that dumb and shown apples to apples same cut of a log. It ruined the integrity of the film which I was totally behind before that.
Rock climbers are so bad ass.
How is it that we stopped using as much paper as we used to but they cut more. Not all houses are built using as much wood as they used to. Like what the hell? This looks like one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. It’s a damn shame they are killing it.
You know in Japan they figured out a way to log without chopping down the tree. We should replicate instead of just destroying everything.
How sad these beautiful old living trees get cut down for money and building. We are truly not worthy.
Nice one
Superbly made documentary! I have plans to go climb in Squamish once the world settles down and I feel much more informed, thank you.
1000 years from now earth will be so different unrecognizable, sad. Because we have so beautiful now. And we have destroy so much already.
Great piece, fully agree, there’s just one thing I wish I had heard someone say in this, which is: these last remaining old growth benches and corners are the last remaining reservoirs of biodiversity in the area, and losing them would not only have an outsize impact on the future biodiversity of the area, it would also likely have an impact on the productivity of the logging in the region. These trees are providing a large portion of the genetic material that is repopulating the valley bottoms where the industry is making its bread and butter money. They may also find that if they clear out the sub-alpine, the fog doesn’t hang in the valleys as long, and the trees take an extra ten years to mature; sometimes a nearby forest is all that is keeping a grassland from turning to desert, logging these last old growth trees may turn this uniquely productive zone into just any other zone.
Wow. Wow.. thanks to everyone involved in telling this story. 🤘🤘🤘 Climb on.
Trees grow back. But that rock their drilling never will. People need to stop being hypocrites.
Very well done, just beautiful ! I`ve watched multiple times.There must be such a diversity of life in that secluded old growth forest. I understand both sides of the issue having grown up in Maine, a state dominated by the paper industry. Logging practices should change so that boreal forests & other old growth around the planet are not destroyed for profit.
I knew the pilot of that helicopter. Heartbreaking.
KEEP THE BEER COLD IM ON MY WAY!
Some day the Sun will Super Nova and all this will be gone. Enjoy it while it last.
You claim to love the area, yet when someone asks you about the best carpentry materials they can get, you still point them to the old growth…. clap. clap.
Gwaihir! Did I hear that correctly? What a dope name for a big wall. Truly a name for a legendary Windlord like Cad 🦅
Hopefully, in a few thousand years, when we’re all dead and gone, the trees will take it all back again.
Amazing natural wonder. Great footage… too bad the individuals speaking are such idiots.
Arc’teryx, I was on board until I realised you’re inadvertently supporting genocide in Burma.