What with the furore over the new Joe Simpson film about the
Eiger, we reckoned we'd have a dig through YouTube and see
what we could come up with on the big, bad, Swiss mountain front for
this week's Friday Matinee.
And what better way can there be to count down to the weekend than
doing some virtual mountaineering on a Friday afternoon...
First off, we normally stick to streaming video, but this week
we're making a bit of an exception for this extended slideshow of
pics from an ascent of the classic Heckmair Route on the North Face,
Wow...
And just to show he can do video as well, this is the same fella
BASE jumping the North Face from a weird detached mushroom
take-off point, trust us, this really is bonkers...
Oooh, after all that excitment, time to take a step back and get a
wider view. There are plenty of helicopter shots of the mountain, but
this is a more sedate approach, by hot air balloon. Awesome
views...
If you've got a slightly bigger screen, like IMAX sized rather
than iMac sized, there's an IMAX film called The Alps about John
Harlin's climb of the mountain where his father died, here's the
trailer...
Oh gawd, this is all so serious... stuff it, here's some
light relief in the form of the Bad Mountain Movie Trailer, it's
allowed because there's some footage of Clint 'Eiger Sanction'
Eastwood in there. Enjoy :-)
That's it for this week, have a good weekend :-)
