Still recovering after this weekend's Kendal Mountain Festival. Sore body and head today! But a great weekend. The film (Kayak Europa) went down well and we got positive comments on the dance floor Saturday night. 'Hey you're the guy with the beard and he's the one with the banana and he's the Justin Beiber look-a-like', by far my best comment!
The film was played on the Wild Water programme, which wasn't exactly wild, the best film, apart from ours, obviously, was 'Crossing the Ditch' about two lads gripping account paddling across the Tasman sea. Snow sports night was a bit of a bore, the best film 'One for the Road' skiing and boarding in Alaska among other knarley places. Glen Plate, please come back next year with a stack of your VHS!!We all fell asleep during Bike night but that may have been something to do with the whiskey tent! But no, 15 mins talking around a camp fire, with no action, come on, people were walking out, well the people awake anyway!
Moonflower was good, the new Alister Lee film, nowhere near as good as the Asgard Project and I don't know whether I'm watching too much outdoor film porn of late, but a lot of the climbing films are very slow and boring. Cory Richard's 'COLD' was excellent, poetic and mad. Minus 51 degrees, Pakistan, winter, 8000m metre peek, surviving an avalanche, enough said. Nice music too.
But the best two films for me where Dean Porter's 'Race for the Nose' breaking the speed record for El Cap's Nose route - hilarious but also completely suicidal. I had to laugh when he shouts down to his partner Sean Leary 'I didn't put any gear in so don't fall'.
The second film was Richard Parks: Conquering the World 737. The brilliant story of Richards record attempt at the 7 summit and 3 poles in 7 months. Absolutely brilliant and the fact that he raised over a million quid for Marie Curie cancer care means, for me, his was the best film.
Great weekend and it was great to see the film on the big screen, the sound was amazing. Now we need to make a few more! Nice tash Frith and sorry about wrestling you Kat!!!
Peace,
Dan
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I´m willing to watch those movies after reading your post. Thank you.
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