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#2875 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 23, 2018, 03:44:01 pm
Yes, understated narrative of local history and interesting local characters meant I enjoyed that Frome video. A thorough review of what makes esoterica special.

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#2876 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 28, 2018, 08:05:32 am
Just finished the Crackoholic Bohuslan film.  What a great and gentle portrait of an area.  Sounds like the Frome Valley one is in a similar vein so I'll rack that one up next...

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#2877 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 30, 2018, 06:59:59 pm
The Salty Dancefloor, Sarah-Jane Dobner’s ode to Pembroke. “Part Atoms, Part Song” 



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#2878 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 31, 2018, 09:43:32 am
cool

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#2879 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
February 01, 2018, 07:57:04 pm
I enjoyed this film about Smith Rock pioneer Alan Watts. He seems like a nice guy.


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#2880 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
March 19, 2018, 05:38:03 pm

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#2881 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
March 21, 2018, 04:58:20 pm
Love the Caprez/Zangerl one

This one is good despite the non-send


Somewhat iffy subs though. A study in the danger of false friends.

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#2882 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
March 27, 2018, 12:34:53 pm
This is the place for this probably. Watched Meru on Netflix last night, which I hadn't heard of, telling the story of the first ascent of the Meru Shark's Fin. It must be pretty good because it held my non-climbing wife's attention throughout. The Gangotri valley was the site of my one and only Himalayan expedition (shit, 30 years ago next year!) so I really enjoyed 'revisiting' the area again after all those years. Trailer:


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#2883 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 06, 2018, 07:34:42 pm
Quote from: andy popp link=topic=4660.msg564898#msg564898
The Gangotri valley was the site of my one and only Himalayan expedition (shit, 30 years ago next year!) so I really enjoyed 'revisiting' the area again after all those years.

What were you trying?  I had a permit for the East Face of Kedar Dome ~30 years ago. Fortunately I got injured and bowed out. How far over my head would I have been...

Getting interested in a trip to the US south west again and came across this film of Jesse Huey, Paul McSorely, Coleman Blakeslee and Will Stanhope freeing the Finger of Fate route on The Titian. I enjoyed it and they gratifyingly didn't find it trivial (disgraceful lack of acknowledgement for El Mocho mind...).


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#2884 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 12, 2018, 06:17:47 pm
Since the previous one was so well received, here's another in the series 'slightly unhinged lad climbs scary sandstone tower'. In this case Honza MakovIcka on 'Dragon’s Back', a Bernd Arnold route from the 70s that's ~6c+ with two bolts in 80m.  I've still not climbed on Elbe sandstone, despite it being on my radar for 40 years. Probably far too timid now.

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#2885 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 12, 2018, 06:36:52 pm
I saw this a while ago. Very good, click on CC for subs. The Czech sandstone climbers I met didn't think much of their German counterparts, apart from Berndt Arnold who they considered almost a demigod.

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#2886 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 13, 2018, 09:31:07 am
That looks frightening, especially with no chalk! When i'm run out I chalk up incessantly, it is like a mental crutch for me. I feel like I should go there sometime and experience some of the easier classics and it looks like a beautiful area.

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#2887 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 13, 2018, 09:42:17 am
It is an extraordinarily beautiful area. I preferred Bohemia (Adrspach & Teplice) to Saxony, but then again we never had the chance to climb at Falkenstein which looks like the best area in Saxony, as it started to rain. My wife hates it, so I am not sure I'll go again, but if I do I think I'd try to climb a few days in Font without chalk before to prepare.

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#2888 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 16, 2018, 11:38:30 am
I've still not climbed on Elbe sandstone, despite it being on my radar for 40 20 years. Probably far too timid now.

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Fantastic video, that route looked bloody brilliant. Like JohnM, the lack of chalk puts me off (unlike JohnM it's a matter of physical urgency rather than a mental crux), more so that the knots and spaced protection. Even so when I see videos like that I think I might just have to cake myself in anti-hydral and get over there at some point....

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#2889 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 16, 2018, 01:02:58 pm
Quote from: andy popp link=topic=4660.msg564898#msg564898
The Gangotri valley was the site of my one and only Himalayan expedition (shit, 30 years ago next year!) so I really enjoyed 'revisiting' the area again after all those years.
What were you trying?  I had a permit for the East Face of Kedar Dome ~30 years ago. Fortunately I got injured and bowed out. How far over my head would I have been...

That's exactly what we tried! And we were so far in over our heads, despite having two experienced Himalayan climbers with us.

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#2890 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 16, 2018, 01:42:36 pm

Fantastic video, that route looked bloody brilliant. Like JohnM, the lack of chalk puts me off (unlike JohnM it's a matter of physical urgency rather than a mental crux), more so that the knots and spaced protection. Even so when I see videos like that I think I might just have to cake myself in anti-hydral and get over there at some point....

In Teplice in the Czech republic chalk is somewhat tolerated, if the climbing is difficult enough, is not a crack climb and the route was put up “recently”. I have sweaty hands as well, but I find cracks ok to climb without chalk (not finger cracks obviously but there are not that many around). In Adrspach I spied some chalk on the hardest face routes, but I would stick to the chimneys which can be enjoyed without.

I wrote up some stuff on Adr and Teplice after going in 2012: http://steepground.blogspot.com.es/2016/03/czech-sandstone-meet-2012.html

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#2891 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 16, 2018, 01:57:22 pm
We used chalk at both Ardspach and Teplice (in June). We climbed with some Czech friends so presumably it's tolerated more nowadays. That said we hardly saw anyone else climbing.

It was still terrifying most of the time!

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#2892 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 16, 2018, 03:12:03 pm

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#2893 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 16, 2018, 06:58:58 pm

This was very good.

Just came to share the same link!
Took the opportunity to revisit the video of Jorg Verhoeven on the Nose too:

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#2894 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 16, 2018, 08:11:45 pm
Two Nineteen Forty Four

Brad Gobright and Jim Reynolds’ Nose speed record ascent compressed to just over four minutes. Strangely compelling. 


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#2895 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 16, 2018, 09:19:11 pm
Mesmerising. Some beautiful footage, nicely put together.

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#2896 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 16, 2018, 10:57:51 pm
Two Nineteen Forty Four



Lovely! Someone has got a very nice telephoto lens; the image quality is great.

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#2897 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
April 17, 2018, 11:54:58 am
Speed records etc. normally leave me cold, but as Wil said, that was mesmerising.

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#2898 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 01, 2018, 12:56:28 pm
Steve Findlay’s daughter on the FA of the excellent looking Tainted Love at Squamish. Cameo from ukb occasional ding dong.


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#2899 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 01, 2018, 09:01:58 pm
Very cool indeed, although I'd prefer a much longer / slower edit of the actual ascent. Route looks like an absolute nightmare / classic of the genre. I like the chipmunk thing!

 

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