Tag: To the Hills & Back

To the Hills & Back opens with a scene where Adam Campbell ties a wedding band onto some cord to wear around his neck. Campbell is deep in the backcountry with a friend, Kevin Hertjaas.

I recognized Campbell and his story immediately. In 2020, he, Hertjaas, and Campbell’s wife, Laura Kosakoski, were touring outside Canmore. Campbell inadvertently triggered a slide that buried and ultimately killed Kosakoski. Just writing that sentence elicits the film’s constant heavy gravity. Although I had read much about Campbell and the ill-fated day after the accident, it is a whole other level to see another person grieve as intensely as Campbell does in his retelling.