Whippers
If you don’t fall, you’re not trying hard enough, right?
I got that on video, dude!
A concerned filmmaker rushes to see if his fallen subject is OK.
Source:www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fenWzUBndo
I got that on video, dude! II
And again.
Source:www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5HbOfwUrwA
It ain’t over ’til it’s over.
Gérôme Pouvreau learns an important lesson during the 2004 Petzl RocTrip as he chats to videographer Guillaume Broust: Clip first, and then exclaim about your climb.
When prusiks go bad.
Phil Cassell caught a helmet-cam view of his own fall after his prusik knot failed to hold while he was rope-soloing in Ontario. Cassell broke both feet but managed to crawl four hours to his vehicle and then drive 70 kilometers to the hospital. “I’ll be out ice climbing once the season comes around again,” he says. “Just not solo.”
Bond. James Bond.
Roger Moore pulls out the usual bag of tricks for some very unusual climbing scenes in this classic clip from “For Your Eyes Only,” filmed at Meteora, Greece.
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November 18, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Red Squirrel
The sad thing is the James Bond clip WAS scripted!
November 18, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Peter Darmi
I want Roger Moore as my partner on the Shield.
November 18, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Spider Savage
This 007 scene gave me the false information that prusik cords should be the size of shoelaces. I struggled with slow prusiking for years until a wise man once said, “What the hell are you doing?” Prussiks are best at about 6mm.
November 19, 2009 at 11:45 pm
John Box
That fall sent shivers down my spine.
February 14, 2010 at 5:20 pm
beastofthefield
that’s one sharp blade!