Home > VIMFF 2026 > Old Man Lightning
Trigger Warning: This film contains images of injuries that may be distressing to some viewers.
The best climbing, comedy, comeback ever made, with a conservation plight. It will make you laugh and cry and maybe piss yer pants. Pushing sixty, climbing athlete and bouldering legend, John “Verm” Sherman has lost his mojo. To regain it, he sets out to climb the most famous boulder problem in the world, Midnight Lightning, and tries to make a come back along with his beloved bird, the Northern AZ endangered California Condor.
