Only three centuries ago, climbing a mountain would have been considered close to lunacy. The idea scarcely existed that wild landscapes might hold any sort of attraction. Peaks were places of peril, not beauty. In Mountain, Willem Dafoe narrates a script written by British author Robert Macfarlane, adapted from one of his best-selling books, Mountains of the Mind - a cultural history of human engagement with these natural giants. A unique cinematic and musical collaboration between the Australian Chamber Orchestra and BAFTA-nominated director Jennifer Peedom, narrator Willem DaFoe and the @expedition.studios team, Mountain is an exploration of our obsessions with high places and how they have come to capture our imagination. Mountain brings together some of the strongest adventure sport cinematographers of recent years (including @sherpascinema), ricocheting around the planet, from Nepal to New Zealand and Austria to Antarctica, in an exhilarating game of vertical pinball. Purposefully, few of these locations are identified as it’s the physical beauty of mountains that we tried to explore here – not their actual locations. The adventurers appearing in the film aren’t identified either, nor is what they do set in context. Through DaFoe’s narration, we are left to marvel at what the outliers of our species are capable of achieving and the impact we have had on these special landscapes. Throughout the production of Mountain, we utilized footage from the @expedition.studios archive as well as and heading out with the sole intent to capture more heartfelt, visceral and evocative portraits of these ancient, vertigo-inducing monoliths that we’ve been exploring for so many years. Writer: @robgmacfarlane @eric_crosland @davemossop @m_sangy @joeyschusler @johngriffithphotography @alexhonnold