HAND HOLDS
HAND HOLDS
Climbing after Parenthood
HAND HOLDS
HAND HOLDS
Climbing after Parenthood
A free-to-watch web series feat. Beth Rodden, Majka Burhardt, Eddie and Anna Taylor, Jon and Jess Glassberg, Chris Kalous, and Kris Hampton.
Community Resource
— COMING SOON —
A free-to-watch film interview series addressing
the gap in community resources for parents
who want to continue rock climbing.
Community Resource
— COMING SOON —
A free-to-watch film interview series addressing
the gap in community resources for parents
who want to continue rock climbing.
About
PARENTS PURSUING PASSION
Through a series of interviews shot on location in Yosemite, New Hampshire, Colorado, and Wyoming with parents who are professional climbers (Beth Rodden, Majka Burhardt, Eddie and Anna Taylor, Jon and Jess Glassberg (Louder than Eleven), and others), we aim to explore the evolution of personal pursuits alongside parenthood.
Between 2023 and 2024, we will be producing free-to-watch episodes designed to serve as a resource for parents and anyone who may feel isolated from their community due to a significant life change. If these athletes who have climbed some of the hardest routes on the planet feel the challenges of caretaking, we can feel better about our own limitations.
Crew
CREW
Crew
CREW
Allyson Gunsallus, Director, Producer
In her first few weeks as a new parent, Allyson felt isolated and overwhelmed alongside her feelings of awe at her newborn. She wondered if she would ever get back to climbing, a passion she’s pursued since 2006. When she couldn’t find many realistic resources online, she started this project. Her goal is to create the series she would have liked to have seen in those first few months postpartum. Through leveraging her experience in business, law, and on boards of two notable climbing non-profits, she has lined up interviews with parent athletes to explore the questions that were most critical to her as a new mom.
See Allyson’s bio and exposure in the community.
Samuel Crossley, Cinematographer
Samuel Crossley does whatever it takes to safely document athletes as they push themselves in remote areas and high risk situations.
Samuel's commercial and editorial work has been for National Geographic, Google, Red Bull Media House, The North Face, Arc’teryx, REI, Reel Rock, MasterClass and ABC News, among others.
Samuel lives his professional life openly gay and is passionate about revealing diverse stories from within the climbing and outdoor community.
Taylor Keating, Editor, Consultant
Taylor is a documentary filmmaker with notable credits including The Incredible Lamont (2022), Queen Maud Land (2018), Of Choss and Lions (2017), Stumped (2017), and Safety Third (2017). He also served as Videographer at the Colorado Ballet.
George E. Baker, Jr., Camera Production Assistant
George has a BA in Photography from California State University and a studio in Oakland, CA. His clients include: Twentieth Century Fox Television, AbbVie, Bank of America, Bristol Myers-Squibb, Constellation Brands, Fleishman Hillard, WeWork, Plantronics, Suffolk Construction, A.T. Kearney, VOX Global, Cisco Systems, Company20, Jet Blue, Build Group of Companies (Pacific Structures, Pro-Shore, Level 5) NK Interactive, Western Allied Mechanical, Offset Design Partners, Kermit Lynch Wine Merchants, Compass Consulting, PayZen, News & Review Group, Gatto Rivera Design, Velos Mobile, and Touchstone Climbing.
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While you’re waiting for the Hand Holds series to drop, check out the Mums Gone Climbing podcast and Climbing With Joy (on Instagram) for awesome pregnancy and postpartum training resources.
Hand Holds: Climbing After Parenthood is a sponsored project of The Gotham (www.thegotham.org).