Pitch CampaignDescent at Elder Ridge
Going down is the hard part
by Cold Harbor Pictures · Launched Jul 12, 2026
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About this title
Synopsis
Seven clients, one guide, and a summit reached at eleven minutes past noon, which is four minutes ahead of a schedule nobody has beaten on this face in three seasons. That is the last thing that goes right. The weather window was good until three. At one o'clock the ridge disappears from the bottom up, the way it does here, quietly and all at once. Going up, everybody wants the same thing. Coming down, seven people want seven different things, and Kiri has one rope.
Who this is about
A guided party of seven reaches the top of Elder Ridge exactly on schedule, which is the last thing that goes to schedule.
What goes wrong
The window closes an hour early. The guide has one rope and seven clients who paid to be standing here.
What's at stake
Everyone summits. Not everyone descends, and the guide knew that number before they left the hut.
Why it keeps going
Each episode is one more pitch down and one more client who has stopped listening to anybody.
Takeaway
The mountain is not the test. Getting tired people to do the boring thing is the test.
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Where your money goes
Your money goes straight to the creator to turn this pitch into a trailer. A pitch today is a poster and a logline. What the money buys is the first piece of film anyone will see.
Nothing is collected until two things are true
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