Dolomites | The Realisation of a Dream (A Family Climbing Film)

Climbing as a Family in the Dolomites – A Dream Realised 🏔️🧗‍♀️✨ The Dolomites have been on our climbing bucket list for over a decade, and finally getting to climb here as a family was nothing short of a dream come true. These iconic mountains are home to some of the most breathtaking landscapes and climbing routes in the world, and sharing this adventure with the kids made it even more special.

This film is a particularly special one for me, Kirsty, as a climbing mum. I sent my hardest route since returning to climbing with kids, something I once thought was impossible. But here we are - it turns out that climbing and adventure travel can go hand in hand with family after all. So to any parents wondering if they can keep up an adventurous lifestyle with kids, I hope this speaks to you. It’s not always easy balancing motherhood, climbing, travel, work, and homeschooling, but it's proving to be worth it for me, Hardin and for the kids.

So on a personal note, to all the climbing mums, future mums, and new mums - it’s possible. 💪 You can have your cake and eat it too.

If you watch our family climbing films, we hope they inspire you to plan your next climbing adventure, step out of your comfort zone, and get outdoors - whether with your kids, friends, or even solo. Maybe it’s time to return to the adventurous life you love or try something new, like climbing 😉 🧗‍♂️🌍

Hope you enjoy this one!

K, H, A & E 🩶

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Full climbing film shot and edited by Kirsty Pardede and Hardin Pardede [Wild Adventure Film]...while climbing, in between climbing and in between wrangling tiny climbers and 237 snacks. With thanks to our good mate Mattia for throwing in a few epic clips too! Thanks dude 🤘

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00:00 Intro
01:41 Climbing in Citta dei Sassi
05:54 Projecting at Capana Bill
11:31 Climbing in Cinque Torri
15:58 16km hike to Refugio Mulaz
20:10 Making best use of a bin bag...
22:25 Climbing an Ancient Castle
31:44 Return to Capana Bill - Motherhood Reflections

[VanaKnežević]

Hellos from Croatia!
I climbed the same route as your little boy did! Right there in Cinque Torri! I believe we are more or less on the same level of climbing! 💪🏼💪🏼🤣
I have to say I truly enjoyed this video. I showed it to my friends as well and said, this is what I want my future to look like! Very inspirational thank you! What a beautiful bunch you are! ❤️💫

[alanoconnor]

What a blast those kids are having, l got parent envy

[wildadventurefilm]

Thank you for watching this one! Let us know in the comments where you’re watching from! 🌎 We just watched the film with granny and the kids and Arlo asked me if other climbers will watch it too and where they live so let me know so I can tell him ☺ even if you’re not a climber! We hope you enjoyed this one and it gets you psyched to climb some rocks and take the kids if you’ve got em!

[emmabroughton]

What a gorgeous family tribute to an incredible place, I cried!!❤❤❤

[coreyepperson]

Kirsty, it's your best one yet!!! I loved it and I'm just flabbergasted by how amazing your kids are ❤ Please tell Arlo that although we're not climbers, we are watching from Washington state in the US.

[retharitter]

Thanks for another beautiful and inspiring film, we love seeing you explore and play as a family. We watched it in our little van called Marshmallow, currently parked up in Datça!

[besidethemountain]

Wow! Thank you for sharing this place and these moments - so so special! Really inspiring to watch you do your climb! It's so good to watch mamas do hard things. I watched this with my parents in Malta and we are so looking forward to Italy now, even though we may not make it to the Dolomites.

[katenadinekelly]

Wicked!!!! You are the coolest family ❤❤❤❤

[louisedoring]

I really enjoyed that movie. We are watching from close to Innsbruck, so you have given us some inspiration where to go as a family next summer.

[Yamataki]

Love this movie ❤ Now I wanna start climbing, been sticking to hiking so far 😂 You‘re videos are so inspiring! Especially as an outdoor loving, hopefully soon mother to be. Watching from Switzerland. Also after seeing this I need to go back to the Dolomites, when I was there last fall I was down with a nasty cold for the whole 10 days and couldn‘t relly enjoy 🙈

[matteobecchi]

I love your movies so much. Your's easily one of the best climbing channels out there. Thank you for sharing these moments with us!

[alibarandov]

Well done! Great movie!! Last time I climbed there was 20 years ago! Miss them so much!!

[alexanderfradis]

Just loved it - thanks a lot and good luck!

[boerenkoolmetworst]

Hi Arlo, greetings from Rotterdam in the Netherlands! It's maybe the flattest country in the world, so not a lot of mountains to climb here unfortunately, but we do have a lot of lakes and rivers to sail or iceskate on!

[michellemartineau]

Going to watch this tonight, with my 5 year old daughter who loves to climb. I think it will help her not be afraid when we're climbing outside! Come to utah so we can have a climbing date, maybe Indian Creek?!

[sonnyjuraa]

You guys are awesome ! I wish to meet an adventurous girl one day, build a family and go out on trips like this 🧡🧡🧡🧡

[PPKFilms]

This was so good !
1) fully agree with the poop rant (especially since our dog it)
2) how do you handle filming when it's you both climbing ? Like does the belayer moves the drone ?

[masterpropper]

This is good content. Keep it up!
Could you tell me what type of camper van you got there?

[MoeJoJoJo]

This is such a wholesome video!

Please would you be able to share what camera and what drone you use :) xx