Adam Ondra, the Czech climber and Olympic competitor, has broken a series of records in his career – whether as a mountaineer or a virtuoso of rocks and walls, he is widely considered the best. In his home country, his fame is unmatched. Invested in training and remorseless body- exercise, there seems to be no end to his ambitions.

The man – often resembling a ballerina on rocks – is always scrambling upwards, taken up with a passion to climb that cannot go unnoticed. Eager to capture the life that Adam has forged for himself, filmmakers Petr Záruba and Jan Šimánek have created a documentary that is visually arresting, and physically puzzling. Wavering into surrealism, “Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits” moves beyond the typical sports documentary, compelling us towards a story about a man in constant motion – revelling in the extraordinary, the ambitious and the death-defying.