Can't help but say this is a massive missed opportunity here. The ingredients are really special: two legendary climbers, with unique footage on one of the world's hardest routes with a really interesting story. Yet in the attempt to show off video editing skills you have completely ruined something that could/should have been amazing. In the first place Jerry Moffatt is a brilliant speaker with lots of interesting insights about hard climbing. Why have him read something - I doubt he even wrote - off a card, to make the video. Let him speak for himself, naturally. It would have probably contained much more insight and been far more interesting. Secondly why do videographers feel compelled to constantly switch angles all the time? It's not in the least bit creative because so many other film makers do the same thing. The average take in this 5 min video is just a few seconds long. It's like the film maker has so little faith in their footage they feel the need to constantly switch angles to keep the viewer's attention. Here's a video of Adam Ondra making the second ascent of Fight or Flight that is far better in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45xlTby_S2A There's no narration and no editing and its not even a decent camera and no tripod. Just raw footage from someone on the ground. But the point is with significant hard ascents by top climbers you don't need be constantly changing angles. Just watching the ascent, as if you were at the crag, is enough to make a compelling video. Do people think climbers have really short attention spans for some reason? The videos of Adam Ondra doing Change run for over an hour. Why compress this story into 5 minutes? It seems a tragic waste of time to spend hours editing footage on a computer and then end up with something worse than what you started with. Finally the story of this ascent for FRFM is missing. Maybe it will be in an upcoming video. But if not then a big missed opportunity. Why not interview Alex about his ascent? About the fact he started trying it on his thirteenth day on! It says nothing about the route or his experience on it. It's all brief soundbites that adds up to something completely vacuous, with no depth or sincerity. It's more like watching a film trailer or even an advertisement. Perhaps you're not suppose to be critical of other people's efforts in public. But this video is just so annoying. And if no one speaks out, or starts a discussion, then videographers will just carry on making the same mistakes in the future.

Can't help but agree. The only things I took from this vid were that FRFM is way shorter than I thought it would be and Megos' coach is a scary lookin' fellah.

And it doesn't even say it's Jerry Moffatt talking either, does it. It's only that I've spent more time than most listening to Moffatt drone on (as I imagine you have too stp) that I knew it was him.

I quite liked it! Well, at least, I guess I'm looking forward to the rest of the series, put it that way. J