Meru Film - Climbing the Shark's Fin

For those interested, this film is now available for download on iTunes (if you have a US iTunes account). It has already won a string of awards.

To the rest of the world it will be available on 17 November.



Link to download

The short version of it was on the Reel Rock film tour a few years back, should be rather epic!



Looking forward to seeing this one

Oh, and by the way this film is a must see!! Just an amazing feat of human endurance and drive!

The cinematography and storytelling is really something. I have probably watched it like 5 times already.

I gave this a watch last night. And WOW!!!!
It's really motivating to push yourself to a point and then just abit beyond.

All my hikes and trips are child's play compared to this, I am getting an itch to get into climbing now.

I will definitely watch this over the weekend!

I still need to see the full feature, but have seen the short version on the Reel Rock 7 film a few times, so I know the basic story. It is rather hectic!

Do yourself a favour and get Messner's book "The Naked Mountain" - it includes a bivy without gear above 8000m! Meanwhile we moan when it is cold when we get out of our sleeping bags! The book is about the first ascent of Nanga Parbat's Rupul Face, they did it in the 70's and, to date a similar route has seen 2 other group repeats, but no one has managed to repeat the Merkyl Couloir. It was also done without supplemented oxygen, and only the second time an 8000m peak was climbed by one route and descended by another. It is a really hectic story.

ghaznavid wrote: I still need to see the full feature, but have seen the short version on the Reel Rock 7 film a few times, so I know the basic story. It is rather hectic!

Do yourself a favour and get Messner's book "The Naked Mountain" - it includes a bivy without gear above 8000m! Meanwhile we moan when it is cold when we get out of our sleeping bags! The book is about the first ascent of Nanga Parbat's Rupul Face, they did it in the 70's and, to date a similar route has seen 2 other group repeats, but no one has managed to repeat the Merkyl Couloir. It was also done without supplemented oxygen, and only the second time an 8000m peak was climbed by one route and descended by another. It is a really hectic story.

Sweet, will check that out!

saros wrote: I gave this a watch last night. And WOW!!!!
It's really motivating to push yourself to a point and then just abit beyond.

All my hikes and trips are child's play compared to this, I am getting an itch to get into climbing now.

Hear hear!
Where do one start though? I'm from Pretoria and were rather deprived of mountains here. Don't know if they do in the Magaliesberg?

LouisvV wrote:

saros wrote: I gave this a watch last night. And WOW!!!!
It's really motivating to push yourself to a point and then just abit beyond.

All my hikes and trips are child's play compared to this, I am getting an itch to get into climbing now.

Hear hear!
Where do one start though? I'm from Pretoria and were rather deprived of mountains here. Don't know if they do in the Magaliesberg?

I know they do climbing in the Magalaiesberg, but the training I am not sure, intrepid I think should know more..

I have found a few climbing gyms in Pretoria though.

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