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Here's the start of my new blog series. Great moments in climbing in the movies...or not.


Set in the Colorado Rockies but filmed in Italy, 1993's Cliffhanger stars Sly Stallone as a climber dealing with the grief of dropping his best friends girlfriend. Lots of delightful homo-eroticism between the bros Sly and Michael Rooker (always a treat) as they are forced to work together to stop John Lietgow and a cast of international terrorists stealing money.

Cliffhanger's actually a pretty good action flick notable for having the most expensive ariel stunt ever filmed. I like stallone and here is one of his early 90s attempts to be more human action hero. I've watched Cliffhanger a few times of cable and always enjoy it. Its a cut above the decades more medocrie action flicks.

The film is also dedicated to badass climber Wolfgang Gullich, Stallone's stunt double who was killed soon after the film was made.