High Hazard

Where mountaineers are made

High Hazard — Plot

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.

• Release date
• January 1, 1935
• Runtime
• 18 min
• Genres
• Documentary, Adventure
• Director
• Stanley Watson

High Hazard — Cast

George Abraham self

S

Stanley Watson self

V

Vivian Verity self

J

Jerry Wright self

H

Helen Johnstone self

N

Norah Watson self

D

Dunbar Usher self

L

Le Breton Martin narrator