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The cold world of skimo & alpine climbing

The cold world of skimo & alpine climbing

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Good and Evil......again



and if you speak French.....something even more interesting

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBJ05GsAVV4

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXsrkavvBgM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow cool!
(almost make this route look "reasonable", almost!)

Unknown said...

I love the sounds of the ice in this video.

brian p. harder said...

Strange to see that route pegged out. Must have been in exceptional condition with a run of ascents prior to the video. Probably not the "proper" conditions that MFT refers to.

Still a fine line for sure.

Dane said...

Ageed. The section around 2:00 is particularly telling as to how hammered the ice was. Years ago I had a conversation about the ephemeral nature of mixed conditions. At the time I had no clue what was really being discussed. G&E fat and hammered is not the G&E Twight climbed. One could say it wasn't in condition on the 1st ascent...or "how dare they" from the French @ the time?! Long time ago by comparison to what is the norm and what is considered "easy" and hard now.