Fri Night Vid Finding Focus - Life Behind The Lens of a Climbing Photographer
This week's Friday Night Video is a portrait of a prolific climbing photographer from Wedge Climbing. Sam Pratt is well known in both the outdoor and competition scene but if you haven't heard of him, you've likely seen his photos having snappe...
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Beautiful, engaging footage which really conveys what "proper trad" actually feels like! My only reservation is that some of it appears to have been edited so as to be out of sequence, which I found distracting.
Makes you really appreciate what drones can bring to climbing films.
Yes, that and some repetition, did give it a slightly disjointed feel. Overall though, great film of a fantastic route...
One thing I would like know is what the cluster of nine old carrot bolts was for - was it a belay, for instance ?
I am happy to see (and hear) that a rack of hexes still has a use on a climb of this difficulty!
There's an explanation on the actual YouTube page as a a Pinned Comment with the following response:
"There’s an 11 or 12 bolt belay there. Bunch of which I filmed when Paul mentions the bad bolts. Neither the FA or FFA used them at all. They were put in by parties trying to repeat the route on aid and getting scared. When John climbed it in one pitch for the FA he didn’t need belay stations and as you know Zac wasn’t using any bolts at all."
Thanks Fraser.