Rocky blogged about this last week, but now, thanks to Dead Point Magazine, there's video of Max Zolotukhin falling while attempting a free solo of Supernova, a 30-foot 5.14b sport route at Rumney. When you look at the landing, it seems like Max was pretty lucky to come away with only the injuries he did. Read his blog entry on the whole thing here before you decide to shit on him for attempting to free solo a route that hard, with a bad landing, etc.:
My lessons were clear. DON’T be overconfident; DON’T assume that everything will be okay; THINK about the effect that your decisions will have on those closest to you.
Of course you want to see a flick about downhillers in Ireland, where the sky is sometimes blue and they never crash. Great backdrops on the Emerald Isle. Now out on DVD. To order, visit www.breakthecyclefilm.com.
I've seen both of Alstrin Films' previous videos, and was at the premiere of their last work about the first ascent of the Supercrack of the Desert. Solid work, both of them. The newest, The Continuum Project, looks like it should be up to par. DVDs ship Nov. 27. More info at AlstrinFilms.com.
Lance Mountain has been doing this for the last 30 years. The guy was an original member of the Bones Brigade, and here is still showing us how to rip it. He was also the inventor of fingerboards, making them out of cardboard, pencil erasers, and disassembled Hot Wheels toys (at least according to Wikipedia). The guy's badass, and this video's a good reminder why.
Instead
of blowing your wad on a week of being carted around Alaska in a
helicopter, just buy a snowmobile and get a full season of untracked
lines. It costs about the same, right? Shaun McKay and Pat McCarthy
show us the downside of snowmobile ownership in this video. You have to
head to Transworld to see the video since they won’t let us embed it here.
With the beginning of ski season comes the beginning of ski porn season. Jeremy Jones ditches helicopters and snowmobiles for something more meaningful.
Pretty old, the first episode aired 19 April, but I'm just watching this. Hardman Bear Grylls gets dropped off in the Arctic Circle, but this time not alone, this time with Will Ferrell. So funny, quotes like, 'I really don't like camping' and 'is this the helicopter to Cancun?' are definitely amusing, and he eats the Twinkie, but while providing the laugh lines, he's fairly proficient.
Is extreme adventure really harder on the stomach than comedy? That's what Will Ferrell and Bear Grylls are going to prove as Man vs. Wild returns on the Discovery Channel on Tuesday, June 2. The special episode is tied to Universal Pictures' upcoming comedy adventure Land of the Lost, which stars Ferrell and hits movie theaters on June 5.
In this first joint extreme adventure special, Grylls guides Ferrell through the paces of real life survival in the ice-bound mountain and glacier ranges in the far north of Sweden. As usual, Grylls is armed with only the most basic survival equipment, while Ferrell is equipped with his infectious sense of humor.
