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SteveW
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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This one's for you, Tar, and it ain't a BUD. . .
Guiness, for REAL MEN. . .
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Dangerous Dan
Mountain climber
Bodega Bay, CA
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Jul 22, 2008 - 11:15pm PT
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I went 2 Leysin Switzerland in 1973/74 & went 2 Dougal Hastons International School of Monntaineering. Bev Clark was an instructor also & a bartender at Club Vagabond at night. I had already been climbing occasionaly in Colorado (El Dorado Springs - San Juans - Flatirons) 2 weeks of high-alpine climbs in Leysin area & 2 days ice climbing in Chamonix with Dougal & Bev was an expierence I'll always remember cherish. I was going 2 live in Grindlewald 4 next year. Dougal told me he & Bev had been hired 2 do rigging-climbing-stunting-consulting 4 a Clint Eastwood movie next summer (based at Klien Schidegg Hotel at base of Eiger) & 2 look him up & maybe I could do some work 4 him on the movie. Skiied almost every day that winter went back 2 France & broke my leg training 4 Marlbouro freestyle circuit. Had 2 return 2 states then. So it goes...
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Jul 23, 2008 - 12:01am PT
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Except for the Movie soloist ( "By Hover) the Eiger sanction is still the best Hollywood Climbing movie ever made... The combination of story , Hollywood and actual climbing and the Hot indian chick. Truely put it as an all time classic. I wish Hollywoood or Baliwood could come up with 1/2 as credible of a film nowadays.....and Aunt Jemima.....
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Jul 23, 2008 - 12:56am PT
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That's it..it's going on the netflix cue
tom
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scuffy b
climber
Sartre's No Exit 1/32 mile
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Jul 23, 2008 - 12:14pm PT
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Doesn't Trevanian's credibility take a hit from the climbing
and caving sequences in Shibumi?
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Ron Raimonde
Big Wall climber
Sedona,Az
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Jul 23, 2008 - 10:54pm PT
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" I tried to climb it twice, it tried to kill me twice" CE
Here's a Plaque we bolted back to the face on the 1938 route, from 1938. We used 1/4 " rawl split studs with hangers , and ended up rapping off it while we were bailing. We also bolted Adi Mayers plaque back on just under the difficult crack.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Jul 24, 2008 - 12:01am PT
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Was Dr. Rodney Whitaker (Trevanian) any relation to Jim Whitaker?
Heard that somewhere once, no idea if it's true.
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BrianRI
Trad climber
Wakefield, RI
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Jul 24, 2008 - 04:20pm PT
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Headintheclouds,
What route did you do?
Brian
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jul 24, 2008 - 05:50pm PT
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Euro Climber: "Jonathan, we aren't going to make it"
Clint: "Yes we are"
Euro Climber: "I don't think so. But we shall continue in style!"
yeah, that bit of dialogue really stuck with me. i've been quoting it off and on -- in both dire and not-so-dire circumstances -- since before i could drive.
great scene that captured an ethic that is now, in many ways, long gone.
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Trippel40
Social climber
CO
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Jul 24, 2008 - 06:30pm PT
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The one and only time I went to Zion it rained for a week. The one dry day we waited as long as we could but had to climb something so went out to the cragging area above the road across from Angel's Landing. The guide said one of the climbs was from the training sequence at the beginning of ES so we HAD to do it. Hardest 5.7 Ive ever done. It started raining again 1/2 way up and that was about as much fun as we go that week.
Was that pitch spliced in as one of the shots on the tower climb or am I getting the details mixed up?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 24, 2008 - 06:51pm PT
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hey there rockermike---say, i dont recall if i ever heard you got fully well, from the spider...
say, how are you doing... let us know...
also:
headintheclouds... sure do LOVE those pics and swiss hotel rock scenery... thanks for the post, there...
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jul 24, 2008 - 07:10pm PT
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nice pix of the eigerwand. i was just in grindelwald, and there was virtually no snow on that face at all. the white spider looked more like a tick.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Jul 24, 2008 - 07:53pm PT
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"Agent Wormwood was Henri Bach..."
Woooo-hoooo!
"...and listen 'cause I'm gonna ask questions later. I don't like you on my flank, 'cause it scares me. And I don't like bein' scared. If you ever come near me again, I'm gonna kill ya."
Uh... I tried not to get too "locker"-esque on this one. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
"I guess it's only fair to warn you in advance I'm going to have to waste you a little."
"Lady, why don't you go get yourself screwed. Do you a lotta good."
"We'll make it..."
"I don't think so, but we shall continue with style."
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Jul 24, 2008 - 08:40pm PT
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Screw NetFLix, this movie should be in every climbers personal library. Classic Clint. Good climbing. Real-feeling Epics. Good plot intertwined with action.
'nuf said.
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Jul 24, 2008 - 09:29pm PT
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PTPP: the grade IV lovers are in Shibumi.
Great book. Great characters.
TC
ps: ES is also a classic
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rockermike
Mountain climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2008 - 09:52pm PT
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Hey Neebee and all, Spider bite is pretty much a thing of the past. Scar on my ankle and occasional fleeting pain but mostly I'm back on my feet and bike again, and appreciating it every day. By the way, when the surgeon cut it open to clean out the abcess he said it didn't look like a recluse bite to him, but he was just guessing. Not enough dead flesh. Whatever it was it cost me 2 plus months and a bunch of doctor bills.
I understand the Eiger is pretty much just a winter climb these days. How hard is it? Are avalanches as dangerous as rock fall?
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curlie
Trad climber
SLO, CA
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Jul 25, 2008 - 01:31am PT
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Bump. Bitchin' movie, I own it. Gotta love "George".
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rick d
climber
tucson, az
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Jul 25, 2008 - 10:50am PT
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Jonathan "she's a girl"
Ben "yea, a lotta people notice that"
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FeelioBabar
climber
Sneaking up behind you...
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Jul 25, 2008 - 01:45pm PT
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Single BEST cover to a climbing publication....EVER.
Alpinist X
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 22, 2009 - 12:59am PT
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just watched this tonight, first time through the whole movie with no cuts (always saw it on television before, they cut a few scenes out and changed the dialog!)...
It's a fun movie to watch... pretty thin plot, and fanciful climbing... but gets the point across. The story of its making seems a lot more interesting then the final product...
...but for a bit of kitsch, not bad.
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