Yossarian
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I have been thinking about a sister thread to Duncan's very excellent FLMHMF for some time. Something for slightly longer things, in more remote places or that might require the employment of expensive suspended camping equipment. I have resisted until now because it's very ADHD to start planning trips to far-flung locations to undertake complex and dangerous objectives when you can barely organise meeting someone at the wall. And also because it's right at the top of the midlife crisis divorcee climbing bingo card, alongside launching a collection of artisan-cured leather chalk bags, or trying to get Alex Honnold to join your BelayDads WhatsApp group.
So I'm currently maintaining that everything here* is purely for research purposes. Think of this then as a repository for information and media meeting the criteria above, and apologies in advance for any crossover with Duncan's thread. Various people on here have mentioned trips to Kazakhstan, and maybe we can copy those photos in...?
To get the ball rolling...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZEgeaAY0cA
This route in India has been in the Chuffing vids for a while, and I have watched it a LOT of times. I've been to that part of India and it was great, though when they were there it rains quite a lot. It's obviously not Baffin Island, but I imagine that a hypothetical slightly hopeless 44-year-old who doesn't climb outside that often might end up having a bit of an epic on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03iWxFeZGmA
This looks great in a number of ways, and was what persuaded me to start this thread. I knew there was some bigger stuff in VdiM but assumed it was crazy hard aid. V interested in this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdeB9cTByio
Really like this guy's channel, esp his recent exploits in Kazakhstan and Patagonia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUjCXDqWMhY&t=210s
Ditto this guy - his POV stuff is great.
Interested to hear what the people on here who actually do this stuff are planning / have done along these lines...
*(I was originally going to call it Ten Crack Commandments, but there are quite enough rock fissure or apertures in general-related things out in the world already.)
So I'm currently maintaining that everything here* is purely for research purposes. Think of this then as a repository for information and media meeting the criteria above, and apologies in advance for any crossover with Duncan's thread. Various people on here have mentioned trips to Kazakhstan, and maybe we can copy those photos in...?
To get the ball rolling...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZEgeaAY0cA
This route in India has been in the Chuffing vids for a while, and I have watched it a LOT of times. I've been to that part of India and it was great, though when they were there it rains quite a lot. It's obviously not Baffin Island, but I imagine that a hypothetical slightly hopeless 44-year-old who doesn't climb outside that often might end up having a bit of an epic on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03iWxFeZGmA
This looks great in a number of ways, and was what persuaded me to start this thread. I knew there was some bigger stuff in VdiM but assumed it was crazy hard aid. V interested in this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdeB9cTByio
Really like this guy's channel, esp his recent exploits in Kazakhstan and Patagonia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUjCXDqWMhY&t=210s
Ditto this guy - his POV stuff is great.
Interested to hear what the people on here who actually do this stuff are planning / have done along these lines...
*(I was originally going to call it Ten Crack Commandments, but there are quite enough rock fissure or apertures in general-related things out in the world already.)