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This week's Friday Night Video is a double bill of Alun Hughes films: The 80's Birth of Extreme: Parts 1 & 2.

One of the best climbing / outdoors vids out there. The kayaking is the best bit

"It was scary, I wasn't in control, and it really really hurt" - Or something along those lines

Can I put a request out for Upside Down North Wales if anyone knows where to watch it. Haven't been able to find it since SteepEdge closed down

Good news.. Upside Down is coming to BMC YouTube pretty soon, so hang in there

The belaying for Liquid Amber! 

Yeah was thinking the same thing. Was it common to lead belay with a munter hitch back then? 

I think maybe she was German, so in that case, yes. However the belay device de rigueur at that time in the UK was a fig 8 with the rope passed through the 8 but then simply clipped into the krab, not passed around the the device itself. Sounds dodgy, doesn't it, but I can't remember any accidents with it. I used it myself for years but quickly switched to a Grigri when they appeared.

I've never belayed with a munter myself (because I like my ropes too much) but presumably they're not self-locking enough to bin out slack with both hands on the live end? Hopefully the shot was just for the camera and didn't have a climber on an 8c on the end!

Anyone else notice that the music playing in the car at the very start of the Sron Ulladale video is Yo Mama by Frank Zappa - the music from the "Quarryman" section of Stone Monkey?

Couldn’t mayor out over the Runrig 😁

The problem with that technique Jon is that it tended to put twists in the rope over time. Regarding using the Fof8 I can remember seeing Neville McMillan from the BMC Technical Committee showing me how easily it could break a karabiner gate when cross-loaded with only light body weight applied. The karabiner just snapped. I got myself a Sticht-plate shortly afterwards!