Rotpunkt paperwork the appearance, the agony and the artwork of the redpoint by Alex Megos’s efforts to redefine the boundaries of the shape. The movie traces the redpoint—which reworked mountaineering from an engineering drawback into an excellent check of psychological and bodily power—from its origins with a ragtag bunch of tights-wearing revolutionaries in rural Bavaria, to its golden period with Wolfgang Güllich, to its new best within the German phenom Megos as he battles to unlock new ranges of human potential.
