I edited but I don't think that point has anything to do with why one would watch the movie. If anything I guess it could make it more compelling.MW03 said:
spoilers, my man
Ervin Burrell said:
Went on a bit of a nature/adventure documentary binge over the holiday - The Alpinist was great, as is 14 Peaks and River Runner (all of these are on Netflix).
TP Ag '87 said:
Watched Free Solo, followed by Alpinist. Glad we watched in that order.
Just insanity. Amazing, but insane.
Head Ninja In Charge said:
I would say out of main four here:
1. Free Solo
2. The Alpinist
2b. The Dawn Wall
4. 14 Peaks
Saw Free Solo a couple years ago, it's great. Only drawback was sweaty palms for 90 minutes. And when I saw Alex Hommel (sp?) at the beginning of The Alpinist call Marc "nuts" (or something like it) I knew we were going to see some crazy stuff.AustinAg2012 said:Ervin Burrell said:
Went on a bit of a nature/adventure documentary binge over the holiday - The Alpinist was great, as is 14 Peaks and River Runner (all of these are on Netflix).
I've seen all three of those, plus Free Solo and The Dawn Wall. I agree with the above poster... Free Solo's the best I've watched. If you haven't, give it a shot.
Some of it was moving editing, but some of it also reflects how routine they made the accomplishment look. Simply climbing K2 or Annapurna is an unreal feat. Only the very best in the world have done that. Something like 300 people ever have climbed K2. Doing them both (along with the other 12) in the same year is absolutely mind blowing. That would be like running a 3 minute mile or something. Then he came back a couple years later and climbed K2 in the winter. It was comparatively boring only in so much as the guy and his team are on such a different level than everyone else that it's hard to contextualize it.GoAgs92 said:
2/3 the way through 14 peaks and the feat is incredible but the movie is comparatively dull vs the other 2.
Yup - the fact the he climbed multiple peaks while hungover and just kinda shrugged it off as "welp, got that one out of the way" is f'ing nuts. For most folks this requires years of training and weeks if not months to execute the climb, and this guy just does it in no time while feeling like sh/t. Crazy.NoHo Hank said:Some of it was moving editing, but some of it also reflects how routine they made the accomplishment look. Simply climbing K2 or Annapurna is an unreal feat. Only the very best in the world have done that. Something like 300 people ever have climbed K2. Doing them both (along with the other 12) in the same year is absolutely mind blowing. That would be like running a 3 minute mile or something. Then he came back a couple years later and climbed K2 in the winter. It was comparatively boring only in so much as the guy and his team are on such a different level than everyone else that it's hard to contextualize it.GoAgs92 said:
2/3 the way through 14 peaks and the feat is incredible but the movie is comparatively dull vs the other 2.
I'm with you on Borah. Actually, the aptly named Chicken Out Ridge on Borah made me turn around (i.e., chicken out) when I tried to do it by myself. Went back a year later with a group and made the summit. I've done some pretty high mountains (including Mt Rainier) in my younger life, but for some reason nothing scared me like that beast.YouBet said:
I've done five 14ers and a bi^tch of a climb in Borah Peak in Idaho.
But this free climbing mess? No thank you.
Ha! Yes! Borah was my first major climb and still the hardest one I ever did.Zona81 said:I'm with you on Borah. Actually, the aptly named Chicken Out Ridge on Borah made me turn around (i.e., chicken out) when I tried to do it by myself. Went back a year later with a group and made the summit. I've done some pretty high mountains (including Mt Rainier) in my younger life, but for some reason nothing scared me like that beast.YouBet said:
I've done five 14ers and a bi^tch of a climb in Borah Peak in Idaho.
But this free climbing mess? No thank you.
I think they are, it's just that particular climbing season there happened to be like a two day window where the summit could actually be scaled due to weather (I think normally there's a 10 day to 2 week window).Max Power said:
Seeing that many people at the top of Everest in basically a traffic jam almost gave me a panic attack. That was incredibly dangerous, and stupid to boot if you ask me. I thought the government was limiting permits to try and keep stuff like that from happening. I could have sworn I read they were going to increase permit costs and put a cap on them to try and keep the number of people on the mountain to a lower number.
I also have huge respect for those guys who risked their own lives to help others that were on the mountain and in trouble. Personal goals and personal safety be damned, they knew they had to try to help.
I assume you've read Krakauer's book?Max Power said:
Seeing that many people at the top of Everest in basically a traffic jam almost gave me a panic attack. That was incredibly dangerous, and stupid to boot if you ask me. I thought the government was limiting permits to try and keep stuff like that from happening. I could have sworn I read they were going to increase permit costs and put a cap on them to try and keep the number of people on the mountain to a lower number.
I also have huge respect for those guys who risked their own lives to help others that were on the mountain and in trouble. Personal goals and personal safety be damned, they knew they had to try to help.
