Film

Raven Crag - Closing The Gap

10.0

0h 45m

1985

Synopsis

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Jill Lawrence and Gill Price, members of the women's climbing club Pinnacle Club, made the first female ascents of difficult routes, laying the foundations for what would develop in the 1980s. In 1984, in the Lake District, Gill Price and Jill Lawrence were filmed climbing Empire E3 6a at Raven Crag, Thirlmere, for a Channel 4 program, Lakeland Rock, with Chris Bonington, broadcast on Channel 4 on 25 May 1985. This event marked a turning point in British women's climbing, as few, if any, women appeared on television climbing difficult sport routes.

Director

Paul Berriff

Documentary

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Cast & Crew

Jill Lawrence

as Self

Gill Price

as Self

Chris Bonington

as Narrator

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