Team Geared Up » highlands http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com talking about outdoor adventure... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:28:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en © robin@bytesurgery.com () robin@bytesurgery.com() 1440 talking about outdoor adventure... robin@bytesurgery.com No no http://homedir-b.libsyn.com/podcasts/a7d06df132db6001b6053c87a6356197/487cc283/bytesurgery/images/tgu.jpg Team Geared Up http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com 144 144 Cameraman’s account of Dave MacLeod’s E10 - update http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/08/cameramans-account-of-dave-macleods-e10-update.html http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/08/cameramans-account-of-dave-macleods-e10-update.html#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:46:26 +0000 Neal McQuaid http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/08/cameramans-account-of-dave-macleods-e10-update.html
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - After our recent link to Dave MacLeod’s write-up on his own thoughts on his new route, To Hell and Back, and all the problems that became associated with it, PosingProductions, one of the camera teams (and producers of the amazing E11 movie and friends of Dave, has written up his own account of what happened on the day.
How about being asked by a friend “for an evaluation of how wet the hold was? What a damn question to ask……What do I know? I couldn’t do that move even if it was bone dry. I gave him the thumbs up, and he set off.”
And as he passed the point of “….possible retreat he let out a huge scream, a ‘power scream’ is the term. But Dave never does that. It was ominous…..”

In short, “It will broadcast on BBC sometime before Christmas. I will be fascinating, but don’t expect to ‘enjoy’ it.” Gulp.
All in all, a harrowing account of something that will probably look entirely normal on TV, but sounds like it could’ve been a disaster on the day (and for Dave).

Image Credit: PosingProductions waiting on the moment to climb

-Neal :)-

]]> http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/08/cameramans-account-of-dave-macleods-e10-update.html/feed Dave MacLeod: The Great Climb To Hell And Back http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/08/dave-macleod-the-great-climb-to-hell-and-back.html http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/08/dave-macleod-the-great-climb-to-hell-and-back.html#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:58:05 +0000 Robin Blandford http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/08/dave-macleod-the-great-climb-to-hell-and-back.html

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - While The Great Climb was cancelled due to weather, Dave posts on his blog that he’s completed the Hell’s Lum climb that was to be done on the day.

It’s the most dangerous lead I’ve ever done, and right now, I’m not sure exactly how I feel about it.

Falling off from the crux or above would have meant death. 80 feet to the gully bed. In the moment of the lead, I screamed at myself twice at the top of my voice because the reality hit me of where I was and what I was doing.

The BBC filmed it on the day, and while the live broadcast didn’t happen the footage will be shown on TV in the near future.

To Hell and Back E10 6c *** 80m
The route climbs the big smooth vertical wall right of the waterfall in Hell’s Lum, crossing Chariots of Fire higher up to finish up the smooth overhanging headwall. A fall from anywhere on the second half of pitch one is unlikely to be survivable.

-Robin-

(Image Credit: Dave takes a minute at the top of ‘To Hell and Back’ E10)

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