Nice video of John Cunningham soloing on the Ben in the mid 1970's. Thanks to Paul Cunningham for sharing that. I'd seen this before at the Ice Men gathering I hosted a few years ago at the Fort William Mountain festival with Yvon Chouinard (who shot the film), Jimmy Marshall and Hamish McInnes. It was nice to see it again and watching it made me think how little has changed today in highland climbing. Maybe not on the Ben which is a tad busier on weekends, but highland climbing is still a relaxed, exploratory, wild and sometimes lonely affair, 40 odd years later. Here's to that. I'm more likely to end the day with tea than a dram though, and then get training!
That vid was great! Wish there was more stuff like that about. No trendy music or nonsense, just the man climbing
ReplyDeleteNow a days the man would be expected to go up the gully on his motor bike too to make a worthy extreme film.
ReplyDeleteThat's just brilliant!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see my video is getting a good response so quickly.
ReplyDeletecheers!
Excellent! Love all the old school gear.. and he still gets one swing sticks despite the old tools ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great piece of footage. Thanks to all concerned for putting it in the public domain :-)
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ReplyDeleteBrilliant, inspiring, enlightening. Thanks for sharing this with everyone.
ReplyDeleteAtmospheric and very inspiring. Totally agree with the comment about trendy music too. More please!
ReplyDeletebrilliant climber, great movie!
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