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This week's Friday Night Video takes us to the Himalayan peak of Changabang where we follow three alpinists from the French High Military Group. The film tells the story of their very short weather window to ascend the mountain, whilst simultaneously reliving the stories of previous ascentionists.

Brilliant film.

More of this.

wasn't this posted a few weeks ago? I enjoyed watching it & I'm sure it was as a link from here .

I think someone posted in in the expedition and alpine forum. Brilliant film, stunning effort.

That was really excellent, although it was spoiled a bit by the philosophical crap.

Its French.  A bit of philosophising is pretty much de rigueur. 

Thanks for putting this up, it's great.

For the 2019 AAJ this represented us with a bit of a conundrum, as it's technically covering no new ground - a fact that would normally exclude it in these pushed-for-space times - but the rapidity of the repeat over such technical ground and the historical context of linking the two British climbs meant we felt it should be squeezed in. They had some great pics too, which unfortunately we could only present a few of online: 

http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/13201215097

It's also a good example of how not going to the main summit of a peak *can* be quite irrelevant if the nature, style and intent of the climb is taken into consideration and communicated well.

It still spoiled it a bit.

That looked really hard and scary. That’s changabang crossed off my ticklist .......