When I get back to the office after a minor epic, people say ‘...you did THAT with the kids?!!?...’. We ski, we climb, we bike. By ordinary standards we do some pretty demanding things. But then you come across people who do EXTRAORDINARY things. Chad Sayers’ Crossing Home (Sherpas Cinema) was beautiful and moving, and understated the gnarliness of what they did. ‘Zaberdast’ lets you see and sense the effort:
The cinematography is superb, easily equalling Sherpas’ Cinema; and that is a very high bar indeed. My son sat captivated by the shots of the Karakoram. I knew a guy who travelled the Karakoram Highway by himself, aged 18. Nothing much in that on the surface. But he did in it 1958.
We put the kettle on, made a big pot of great coffee, and chilled out for an hour watching Zaberdast. One of the best hours I have spent for ages and ages...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
My palms were sweating at the sideslipping at 31 minutes. One mistake and it's all over...
I don't know how they did that. The bit where it pans back from the snowboarder as he starts, it's just a vertical wall!!
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
@HoneyBunny, ...I think (I don’t know through direct experience since this kind of freeriding is above my pay grade) that on these spines, the snow is deep and soft enough to dig in and make your own gradient...
How light powder adheres into these spines is extraordinary - Joe Simpson talks of the weirdness of these, when he was in Peru. It’s powder, and insubstantial, but clinging on in deep ribs and spines....
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