Mike Hoover

Mike Hoover is an American mountaineer, rock climber and cinematographer. His first major involvement in film was in The Eiger Sanction (1975) in which he taught Clint Eastwood how to climb in the Yosemite valley before the film was shot in Grindelwald, Switzerland in 1974.^[1][2] He has since been a cinematographer for the documentaries To the Ends of the Earth (1983), To the Limit (1989), The Endless Summer 2 (1994) and Zion Canyon: Treasure of the Gods. In the late 1980s, he made 18 trips to Afghanistan to shoot footage of the bloody war in the country.^[3] It later featured in a program named The Battle for Afghanistan (1987). Hoover, who has been in charge of various film teams, has filmed all across the world,^[4] particularly physically and politically difficult filming locations, from the precarious rock faces of the Eiger, to filming Everest and K2,^[5] to canoeing in the Venezuelan jungle.^[4]

References

1. ^ Schickel, p. 314
2. ^ McGilligan, p. 244
3. ^ Cates, Jo A. (2004). Journalism: a guide to the reference literature. Libraries Unlimited. p. 11. ISBN 9781591580614. http://books.google.com/books?id=JogLxVrWcoQC&pg=PA11. Retrieved 26 January 2011. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Active Interest Media, Inc. (July 1986). Backpacker. Active Interest Media, Inc.. p. 36. ISSN 0277867X. http://books.google.com/books?id=9d8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36. Retrieved 26 January 2011. 
5. ^ Waterman, Jonathan (1 September 1993). Cloud dancers: portraits of North American mountaineers. The Mountaineers Books. p. 132. ISBN 9780930410544. http://books.google.com/books?id=qwS1l6OnObAC&pg=PA132. Retrieved 26 January 2011. 

Bibliography

• McGilligan, Patrick (1999). Clint: The Life and Legend. London: Harper Collins. ISBN 0006383548. 
• Schickel, Richard (1996). Clint Eastwood: A Biography. New York: Knopf. ISBN 9780679429746. 

External links

• Video of Hoover climbing

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