Fri Night Vid Siurana - A Limestone Paradise
In this week's Friday Night Video, we follow Robbie Phillips and friends to Siurana, Catalunya, where he aims to regain some sport climbing fitness to tackle James Pearson's Le Voyage. It had been a decade since Robbie had been...
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Great that you featured this video. I meant to link it on the Ondra thread earlier this week because I think the crag is the same one he visited, but possibly he went through the Settlement, not around? I think it was mentioned in the article.
Very good film. Hopefully this will encourgae the folks in the West Bank to carry on, and people in the wider world to perhaps go visit.
I thought this video was excellent. Very difficult to strike the correct tone with respect to the impact of the political and security issues of the West Bank and I think this was achieved perfectly.
I liked the chap interviewed too, about not being competitive with his brother. I thought his attitude sounded very similar to mine, I consider myself very good at going climbing (early starts, car sharing with mates, chatting with others at the crag, drinking coffee from a thermos, working out which route is which from bad guidebooks, sun bathing etc.) It's just the actual climbing I'm not so good at! He seemed to have an equally relaxed philosophy. :-)
Hope they get a chance to come on a BMC international meet.
"Sometimes I let my brother put in the quickdraws". Disgraceful. I would never dream of that kind of that kind of behaviour :)