FRI NIGHT VID: Brown, Whillans and Fawcett

by Jack Geldard - UKC Chief Editor Mar/2013
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This week several exceptional videos have cropped up on Youtube, and have been discussed in the UKC forums already.

First up is a 1984 clip of Don Whillans and Joe Brown climbing Cemetery Gates (E1) on Dinas Cromlech in the Llanberis Pass.

Tragically this was Don's last major climb as he died a few months later.

Then we have a series of Ron Fawcett videos.

The first is the 1980 Rock Athlete program by Sid Perou in which Ron makes the first ascent of Lord of the Flies (E6) on Dinas Cromlech.

Then there is the Leo Dickinson film from 1984: Pushing the Limits: Extreme Rock.

And finally there is the 1984 film The Fingertip Phenomenon by Sid Perou, featuring Ron Fawcett in the Verdon Gorge, France.

All we can say is - Absolute Class. Fantastic stuff that these are online and available to view. Big thanks to those who uploaded them.

Note: Forum user 'Lagerstarfish' posted up with how these videos came to be online:

"It was me who uploaded the vids as the result of a combined effort on the mighty UKB.

This thread http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,21548.0.html

As I've said in the blah under the vids, I do not own any of the content and do not have any permission from the makers/owners to post them. In fact, I haven't even attempted to ask permission from the owners - because I'm lazy.

None of the films seemed to be available to buy or view anywhere else and a few people were interested in seeing them.

Of course I will remove them if the owners want me to.

Lagers"

Nice one Lagers and the UKB guys involved - love the vids.

* Forums ( Read More... | 27 comments, 01 Apr 2013 )
Yes I realised shortly after posting (but too late to change it). Sloppy of me! From memory, the Gates vid came shortly after the Lakeland rock series. Both great vids though. I,too had all the rock athlete vids and the...
GeoffRadcliffe - 01 Apr 2013

Geoff, the Don Whillans video on Lakeland Rock is the one of Don and Chris Bonnington on Dove Crag. The video on youtube is a different one with Don and Joe Brown on Cemetary Gates on the Cromlech. I do have quite a...
Paul Evans - 01 Apr 2013

The Don Whillans video is available on the Lakeland Rock DVD which is still available on sites like Amazon. This was a TV series with such classics as Pete Livesy and CB on Footless Crow and Jill Lawrence and Gill Price...
GeoffRadcliffe - 18 Mar 2013

'This week several exceptional videos have cropped up on Youtube, and have been discussed in the UKC forums already. First up is a 1984 clip of Don' I think you will find this was initiated, and undertaken by...
Simon_Sheff - 18 Mar 2013

the one that sells potato's and tomato's? the greengrocer insists that neither of those words come up as spelling errors on his PC computer and both spellings conform to the rule of shoving in a flying comma where a...
lagerstarfish - 17 Mar 2013

are you using Firefox? there are some annoying problems with Firefox/Youtube. sometimes with Virgin broadband and Youtube as well. the full cocktail is most frustrating why aren't I getting capital letters...
lagerstarfish - 17 Mar 2013

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