from Hot Aches Productions
'The Long Hope' film poster There is a special screening of our new film 'The Long Hope' at the Royal Geographical Society in London on the 8th of February. Dave MacLeod and Andy Turner will both be giving a talk about the project and I'll be there to introduce the film. Royal Geographical Society It should be a very special night, not least because of the amazing venue. So if you live in London it would be great to see you there. Tickets cost £12 and can be bought directly from Dave MacLeod's website .
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
Paul Diffley captures the action from an airy filming position on the Longhope route. Photo: Lukasz Warzecha On February 8th, myself, Andy Turner and filmmaker Paul Diffley will be speaking at the Royal Geographical Society in London about the Longhope route. Mountain Equipment and Gore-Tex have helped us arrange an evening of entertainment at the RGS to share with you what was pretty memorable adventure for us, both in terms of the climbers involved in attempting to climb this cliff over 40 years, and in
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from Hot Aches Productions
Our new film, ‘ The Long Hope ’ is now available on DVD and HD download. The Long Hope DVD, Cover photo by Lukasz Warzecha, design by Ifan Bates We had a great time at the premiere last week, with a sold out theatre at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival. Folk seem to really enjoy it. It was great to be over hearing so many positive comments in the bar all weekend at Kendal… Not that we spent all weekend in the bar… just most of it! The Long Hope premiere, pic Lukasz Warzecha Highlights of Kendal for
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
The soaring crack pitch of Mucklehouse Wall, E5 6a Since completing the Longhope Direct, our trip on Orkney has been light of step but heavy of leg. The team are all feeling a tad fatigued from great efforts of rigging, filming and eating a lot of cake to replace all the calories that you seem to burn here. For me it’s been a lovely slow release and realisation that the route is done and I can wake up a little more to the sights and sounds of Hoy without the blinkering weight of focus on the project that
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
Approaching the guillotine flake before the crux pitch or the Longhope Direct. Photo: LW Images Starting into the crux Photo: LW Images Bringing Andy Turner up to the Guillotine belay. Photo: LW Images The Longhope route was first climbed as an aid route by Ed Drummond and Oliver Hill in 1970. After climbing it yesterday I have a doubly renewed respect for the boldness of climbers of that period. To venture up that cliff without cams, taking the steepest line possible was a hardcore effort. They spent 7
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
I’m off up tomorrow (Ha! Today actually - another late night typing…) with Claire, Freida, Andy Turner, Diff, Lukasz and others for a good trip to Orkney. We’ll either be dodging fulmars on the cliffs or dodging showers and eating Stoats bars all day back at basecamp. Fingers crossed for the former. It’s going to be cool to go for a proper trip, so long as we get some weather of course. I’ve mostly been there with Claire or just by myself and for short trips, so I’m interested to see how things
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from Hot Aches Productions
This year's major film project is about to commence. We are shortly heading to the island of Hoy with Dave Macleod and Andy Turner to film an ambitious ascent of the Long Hope Route on St John's Head. The Long Hope Route, Pic Dave MacLeod, Click to enlarge But first, a bit of history. The Long Hope Route was first climbed in 1970 by Ed Drummond and Oliver Hill. They spent 7 days on the wall, sleeping on ledges and in hammocks, and several of the 23 pitches involved some aiding. A first free ascent was made
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from UKClimbing.com News
Keywords:
Hurting,
t-Sneachda in the Cairngorms,
Fiacall Buttress,
Greg Boswell Repeats,
Hurting XI,11,
ground-up ascent,
amazing season,
Coire an t-Sneachda,
t-Sneachda,
Andy Turner
Young Scottish climber Greg Boswell has continued his amazing season with a ground-up ascent of The Hurting on the Fiacall Buttress at Coire an t-Sneachda in the Cairngorms.
This is the third ascent of the route after Dave MacLeod and Andy Turner.
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from Climber's Blog
Keywords:
hard repeats,
XI,11 Dave MacLeod,
series of hard repeats,
Coire an t-Sneachda,
first ascents,
t-Sneachda,
Hurting,
Andy Turner,
Lochnagar,
Coire
A series of hard repeats and first ascents on Ben Nevis, Coire an t-Sneachda and Lochnagar, including the second ascent of The Hurting (XI,11 Dave MacLeod, 2005) by Andy Turner.
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from UKClimbing.com News
Scotland has seen a storm of hard ascents over the past few days, top of the list is perhaps Andy Turner on The Hurting (XI,11).
Other action has been from visiting climbers Charly Fritzer and Ines Papert . Amongst other things the team managed to nab the second ascent of To Those Who Wait (IX,9) on Ben Nevis.
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