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Number Seven: Set In Stone
When the wind's whistling outside, the in-laws are snoring on the
sofa and you really can't face The Great Escape for the 400th time,
reach for the latest award-winning DVD from the Alastair Lee / David
Halsted stable.
It's almost a forgone conclusion that Lee and Halsted willl win
the People's Choice award at Kendal and sure enough, Set In
Stone romped away with this year's prize following in the
footsteps of Twice Upon A Time in Bolivia and last year's cracking
Storms - The Movie. It also went a step further by winning Best
Climbing Film at the festival.
The film is a look at Lakeland climber Dave Birkett's life and
routes and, like all the duo's films, it's a breath of fresh air in a
genre that specialises in extraordinarily dull, cliquey ego-vehicles.
It's a fantastic mix of breathtaking climbing sequences in
astonishing landscapes interspersed with artless comment from
Birkett's friends and family and, in classic Lee/Halsted style, some
hilarious computer animation.
Don't miss the ridiculous but effective animated summary of
Birkett's background or the revealing sheep-rescue sequence. We
could go on and on, but this is a lovely, intimate look at one of the
world's best traditional climbers that strips away all the ego
nonsense and puts a smile on your face. Never dull, always watchable.
A great addition to any mountain person's Christmas list.
Priced at £18.99 and available online from the Posing
Productions web site at www.posingproductions.com
where you can also download a teaser.
Also well worth a look are Twice Upon A Time In Bolivia, a
thoroughly entertaining look at real people climbing in the Andes and
the hilarious climbing sketch film, Storms - The Movie. Also
available from Al's web site.
