A selection of ace trailers from climbing film specialist, Hot Aches - enjoy!
Posted:
5 October 2012by
JonJust writing about the forthcoming alternative launch of new Hot Aches film Odyssey got us thinking about Hot Aches previous nine productions. And that in turn, because we're nothing if not joined up, got us onto trailers. And trailers for Hot Aches films, obviously, which are mostly rather good. And then we found ourselves whiling away Friday afternoon watching them, so we thought...
... well here are few of them for you starting with the one for Wide Boyz, which isn't quite out yet, but will be very soon and follows two Sheffield climbers on a mission to take on the hardest, widest cracks in the world. Hence the film's title.
'It's loose, it's sandy, it's got everything you hate about climbing, but it's fantastic...' Dave MacLeod tackles The Long Hope Direct (E11) in The Long Hope. 'Extremely scary adventure climbing with birds vomiting on you'... Oooh err...
E11? You want E11? You couldn't handle E11... Yep, MacLeod again, this time often in monochrome and on a two-year mission to climb Rhaphsody, which is graded, erm, well, not VDiff obviously.
And now for something completely different - The Pinnacle. Dave MacLeod - again - and Andy Turner pay tribute to Jimmy Marshall and Robin Smith who climbed six first winter ascents on consecutive days on Ben Nevis in 1960, including the mini Alpine-route, Orion Face Direct and the first one-day winter ascent of Point Five Gully. By, deep breath, repeating all those routes in a week.
One more from the past, Steve Mclure from Committed II on Dumbarton Rock. Nice...
And last but very not least, a bit of footage filmed for Odyssey giving a taste of what's to come. It's taken me all day to spell 'Odyssey' right as well, let alone MacLeod. Hmmm...
Plenty more to see on the Hot Aches YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/HotAches?feature=watchand at www.hotaches.com.
