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The Friday Matinee

It's Friday, it's five to five, so it must be the Friday Matinee, our priceless but free gift to your empty Friday afternoon hours as you countdown the minutes to the weekend...

This week with Scotland having more than its fair share of wet, rained-on, avalanche prone snow and possible 95 mph winds forecast, we thought we'd go to Barbados, oh, no we didn't, we thought we'd have a look for some ice climbing - the most fun you can have with your crampons on...

Oh, and don't panic, we're not going to show you that flippin' cartoon bear again...

For starters here's some footage from the last legendary Ouray Ice Festival, competition climbing on ice. Commercialised, but kind of fun and how did those graphiti kids get up there...

Seems light years away from legendary climber Charlie Fowler back in the early 90s when ice axes still had leashes and climbers weren't plastered with sponsors' logos. Warning interview footage...

And here's another departure, bonkers French ice climbers on a virgin M8 routes, that's mad mixed part ice / part rock. Warning climbers speaking French.

And some more proper hardcore modern water ice, Beat Kammerlander goes crazy swinging on the chandliers... and look, he appears to have forgotten his rope. Hmmm...

  

Finally, it used to be the case that on ice, you simply didn't fall off. No-one told these guys that - Ouray again... Not like the old days when folk took proper leader falls, nooo...

And if you're really bored, there's lots, lots more where that came from, we're just scratching the icey surface. Have fun :-)


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