The Eiger

[fiddler]

I just watched the movie "The Eiger Sanction" and since I saw ski lifts I googled it to see where exactly it was and found this:

http://youtu.be/Ut1kGmOhzWQ
looks like fun!

[Pancakes]

Sweet dude! no one has ever seen this before on this site! Sick! Oh and please tell me where the Eiger is? I've never heard of it before either, but it looks cool!

[fiddler]

Sweet dude! no one has ever seen this before on this site! Sick! Oh and please tell me where the Eiger is? I've never heard of it before either, but it looks cool!

Are you always a complete asshole or just vastly superior?

[bendtheski]

Meh. I liked the movie better, although The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is my all time fav!

Tuco: [trying to read a note] "See you soon, id... " "id... " "ids... "
Blondie: [taking the note] "Idiots". It's for you

[capulin overdrive]

Good movie, the books even better!


Check out North Face if you have Netflix, German movie about climbing Eiger.

[Toadman]

The terrain ain't the most gnarly there but if it's a pow day, much fun can be had. Great place to soak up the Swiss vibe amongst the cows, the cheese, bier, and mountains...Not to mention the occassional sanction, just don't be on the wrong end of it.

[plugboots]

Hmmm, depends on where you ski. I'd say this looks a bit gnarly. You must be very humble.




http://provallone.com/blog/eiger-west-face/951/

[Pancakes]

That looks like a piece of cake bro. Seriously I could ski that when I was 12.

[Meanfruit]

That looks like a piece of cake bro. Seriously I could ski that when I was 12.

Says the guy from Jersey

[gpcharles]

this thread is hilarious

[.simonb.]

That guy had a lot of trouble getting his skis down on the snow as soon as he dropped of the main face. Gnarly for sure.

[old goat]

West Face first skied by Saudan in 1970. He was dropped off on the top by a helicopter as snow conditions were not felt safe to climb! The North Face speed climbing record is under three hours, I believe, done by Ueli Steck, whose videos are terrifying. He can front point up 60 degree ice faster than I could run on pavement, in my youth. I've never skied there but from what we could see when we were there one May the lift served skiing didn't seem like much either in Grindelwald or Wengen and Murren. Maybe someone here knows better.

[whipski]

Dont know about the Eiger but this film bout the Matterhornwas part of the inspiraration to leave the great plains for the mtns

[makimono]

Read The White Spider by Heinrich Harrar. Classic mountaineering book on the sometimes brutal and deadly early attempts at the Eiger Nordwand. It's amazing to think about the progression in the last century.

[splat]

That looks like a piece of cake bro. Seriously I could ski that when I was 12.

Yeah, I always ski the Eiger switch when I'm in Wengen and use my jacket collar for a speed wing.

[grskier]

Yeah, I always ski the Eiger switch when I'm in Wengen and use my jacket collar for a speed wing.

I knew you were a collar poppin' fool

[Clownshoe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-dPjDYVKUY

WTF

[fomofo]

Over the weekend I was hiding in the basement from the multi-day extreme heat wave and found The Eiger Sanction on ROKU on one of the multitude of free movie channels. I'd seen it way back in the day, but not since. The movie's story is pretty laughable, and there are a few cringeworthy moments viewed through the lens of modern sensibilities, but there is a fair amount of interesting climbing stuff filmed in Utah, Arizona and Switzerland. Clint Eastwood actually did a lot of his character's on-screen climbing scenes.

Dug up some background on the film's production...

The Making of The Eiger Sanction

Tragedy on the Eiger – The Death of David Knowles

Mike Hoover, mentioned in the article linked above, was a climbing advisor on The Eiger Sanction. Interesting guy, who made a cool short film...

Mike Hoover's Solo - 1971

Alex Honnold with some humorous and insightful commentary on climbing scenes in a number of films, with The Eiger Sanction first up in this clip...

[schindlerpiste]

I am friends with one of the girls sitting around the pool in the UT scene.

Everything by Trevonian is very good. Shabumi is probably my favorite book.

Nice video

[fomofo]

I am friends with one of the girls sitting around the pool in the UT scene.

Buns?

Any Brenda Venus stories?

[PB]

I am friends with one of the girls sitting around the pool in the UT scene.

Everything by Trevonian is very good. Shabumi is probably my favorite book.

Nice video

Shibumi FTMFW.
Didn't Nicholai Hel rag on movie stars for warping his consulting advice on a mountain (Matterhorn?) climbing shoot? Like maybe even snarking on Clint???

(Trevanian)

[fomofo]

Sounds like a great read!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibumi_(novel)

[schindlerpiste]

I would love to do some caving in the Basque region.

“Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't.”

“It is revealing of the American culture that its prototypic hero is the cowboy: an uneducated, boorish, Victorian migrant agricultural worker.”

“As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. Shibumi is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without pudency. In art, where the spirit of shibumi takes the form of sabi, it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, where shibumi emerges as wabi, it is spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of becoming.” .....Shibumi is skiing ALTA on a 30" pow day

[PB]

Or, laying down the perfect free-heel carve.

[pfluffenmeister]

I would love to do some caving in the Basque region.

“Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't.”

“It is revealing of the American culture that its prototypic hero is the cowboy: an uneducated, boorish, Victorian migrant agricultural worker.”

“As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. Shibumi is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without pudency. In art, where the spirit of shibumi takes the form of sabi, it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, where shibumi emerges as wabi, it is spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of becoming.” .....Shibumi is skiing ALTA on a 30" pow day

Interesting.
I was aware of Wabi-sabi: A world view centered upon transience and imperfection. Appreciating beauty that is impermanent, incomplete, imperfect.

But not of their constituents.

PS Shibumi rocks!