In reply to Old Skooled:
You are probably not referring to my comment, but just in case someone might misinterpret what I wrote above... when I said "we see JC through a glass, darkly", I was not referring to any aspect of the ascent itself, but to the corporate feel of the video. I felt that a more sensitive film might have told us something interesting about what it was like for this particular young woman to do something so amazing. Instead we got a weird, stilted, semi-scripted spiel. I didn't like it. It felt pointless and unreal.
This is not a negative comment on JC herself - the opposite in fact. I sense she might have had plenty to say given the (lack of) direction, but was cheated by the money-makers. It's the modern way. I liked it way back when people were just trying to tell a stupid story in climbing videos. In those days sponsors names were in the credits. These days sponsorship itself is the story.
File me under aging hippie.