The film follows Leo Houlding's ascent of the Antarctic peak

The film of climber Leo Houlding’s remarkable first ascent of a route on an Antarctic peak goes on general sale today.

Award-winning cinematographer Alastair Lee’s The Last Great Climb tells the tale of the Cumbrian mountaineer’s successful scaling of Ulvetanna, one of the world’s most remote and challenging mountains.

The film has already picked up two major awards at international film festivals and was praised by climbing elder statesman Doug Scott, who said after the London premiere: “I don’t think anyone has seen anything quite like the footage you shot in that environment.

“It’s unbelievable to me. I’ve seen quite a few films over the years, but I can’t remember seeing rock climbing at that standard, in that environment, at that height.

“The Last Great Climb takes climbing films to a whole new level.”

Alastair Lee filming in the Antarctic

The film follows Houlding and his team members Jason Pickles and Sean ‘Stanley’ Leary as they attempt to make the first ascent of the north-east ridge of the Ulvetanna Peak, one of the most technically demanding climbs in the world’s harshest environment.

The peak was only discovered in 1994.

Alastair Lee has worked with Leo Houlding previously on The Asgard Project in Baffin Island; on The Prophet route on El Capitan in Yosemite and on Cerro Autana, the ‘lost world’ in Venezuela.

The Last Great Climb can be ordered from the Posing Productions website.