Fri Night Vid Siurana - A Limestone Paradise
In this week's Friday Night Video, we follow Robbie Phillips and friends to Siurana, Catalunya, where he aims to regain some sport climbing fitness to tackle James Pearson's Le Voyage. It had been a decade since Robbie had been...
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Just savoured this accompanied with a mug of tea. What an exploit! Excellent film of gutsy attempt.
Thanks UKC for sharing this one.
A great weekend to all !
j
Great film, I really enjoyed it, but some of the comments on YouTube are suggesting that the film has completely missed out the fact that Nims and his team summitted just hours before these guys did, breaking trail and leaving fixed ropes. Seems a bit dishonest to omit these facts.
I stopped watching when he said some of his team would be using supplemental oxygen. It's a bit of a half way house between what is nowadays a normal expedition and an actual team achievement.
I understand that climbing K2 is really dangerous and difficult and only the fittest and most driven will get to the top....
...but there is something particularly uninspiring about a climbing film that defines climbing as endlessly pulling on fixed ropes. I'm sorry, I just don't get it. Why not spend 6 weeks in a freezer on a stairmaster playing Russian Roulette every second day. And a big telly for the view.
Actually, now I mention it, I think I've just invented Zwift for mountaineers. I'll call it Zlow.
He did say the fixed ropes didn't go ALL the way to the top, he knew when they ended there was still 30m to go!!!
Chris