New Film About Jamie Logan Explores the Legendary Alpinist’s Transition

The film opens on a beige backdrop and the sound of paper pages being flipped, then quickly cuts to Jamie Logan, sitting in a picturesque meadow with the sun at high noon. Her voice is steady and firm as she reads aloud a four-decade-old article from Climbing Magazine. “I wrote [this] in 1979,” she said—then, without pause, “the Emperor Face, by Jim Logan.”

You will find no sweeping mountain panoramas or harrowing whippers in Darcy Hennesey’s new climbing film Jamie. Centered around pioneering...