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Rondette posted:I watched the Everest film recently (and actually FELL ASLEEP during the storm part) and I thought the real 'heroes' were the pilots who managed to fly a helicopter to an as unyet attempted height, at great risk to their own safety, to rescue an American guy who wanted something to tick off his bucket list. I really hope there's eventually one that focuses entirely on that aspect, lots of interviews with families of climbers before they leave, editing to point out the hollowness of the entire affair... Grizzly Man but with dozens of Treadwells every year.
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Cojawfee posted:Since he's going for records, I would assume he's climbed these places several times and he knows the route he is going to take. It's a simple matter of placing cameras and people along his route. Pretty much. He's climbed the north face of Eiger 40+ times at this point so they know where to place cameras and when/where to do flyovers.
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Finally watching ever ever ever ever rest rest rest rest. I read all the books recommended in one of these threads before and it's actually great to get a picture of all the places I'd only heard described before (north col etc). The animated graphic they do zooming between the camps is great for a sense of scale too. Has there ever been an estimate of how long it would take to go from base camp to summit if oxygen levels were similar to ocean level (while maintaining the other difficulties like carrying packs, navigating the ice fall etc)
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Chicken Doodle posted:I'm always a big fan of Touching the Void. It's not Everest, it's not about famous people, but it's goddamn amazing. Should be on Netflix I hope. The best mountaineering documentary. The re-creation climbing bits are really good too.
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Jose posted:Are there any good behind the scenes stuff of how things like ueli steck records get filmed? Most of the badass Ueli Steck videos are actually re-enactments. He goes out and does the climb in 3 hours or whatever with no cameras around, and then on a different day they just shoot film of him on some of the more cinematic spots. He's on the same route on the same mountain, but there's not the same time pressure, and they can do a take again and stuff like that. Edit: Here's a "making of" for one of his more famous videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llb1pjUi-Cg
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Feb 7, 2016 22:38
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Happy Hedonist posted:Pretty much. He's climbed the north face of Eiger 40+ times at this point so they know where to place cameras and when/where to do flyovers. for records yeah but what about when its supposedly the case of someone doing their first climb or whatever? is that just not true and they practice it a bunch and film it. What do they use for the side of the mountain shots? A helicopter and a long distance lens?
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gohuskies posted:Most of the badass Ueli Steck videos are actually re-enactments. He goes out and does the climb in 3 hours or whatever with no cameras around, and then on a different day they just shoot film of him on some of the more cinematic spots. He's on the same route on the same mountain, but there's not the same time pressure, and they can do a take again and stuff like that. This is also how Top Gear filmed their challenges.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:40
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the best mountaineering film is the eiger sanction spoof episode in archer
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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gohuskies posted:Edit: Here's a "making of" for one of his more famous videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llb1pjUi-Cg cool this is what i was after thanks
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Gringo Heisenberg posted:The best mountaineering documentary. The re-creation climbing bits are really good too. Yeah it's the only cinema-released film that I would say is a good Mountaineering film - and it's more documentary than film.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:58
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Jose posted:for records yeah but what about when its supposedly the case of someone doing their first climb or whatever? is that just not true and they practice it a bunch and film it. What do they use for the side of the mountain shots? A helicopter and a long distance lens? I guess you bring a GoPro or pay a cameraman to lug his poo poo along and film you. The latter obviously isn't feasible when you're doing crazy Ueli Steck style poo poo. For instance, he doesn't have video evidence of his record Annapurna climb because his camera poo poo the bed and they didn't have a clear shot of his summit or even know where the hell he was at the base camp. Here's my favorite climbing documentary and it includes an interview with the cameraman that came along. http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/ng-live/libecki-richards-antarctica-lecture-nglive?source=relatedvideo
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Feb 7, 2016 23:01
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i watched Beyond the Edge last night on Netflix, they did a hella good job with that film.
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Has anyone seen Meru? I think I'm going to watch that tonight instead of the Superbowl.
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Happy Hedonist posted:Has anyone seen Meru? I think I'm going to watch that tonight instead of the Superbowl. It's pretty amazing and if I wasn't pretty sure I would have heard of the death of Conrad Anker, I would have bet on 3 dead a couple of times. Cool movie, and an absolutely crazy climb.
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Feb 7, 2016 23:29
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Those speed climbing videos make me look away from the screen, and I'm not normally one for fear of heights.
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A Japanese movie about Everest is coming out soon, idk if it's just a copy of the Hollywood film or not http://everest-movie.jp/sp/ But they actually filmed on location which is p rare for Japanese movies in the cg age.
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peanut posted:A Japanese movie about Everest is coming out soon, idk if it's just a copy of the Hollywood film or not http://everest-movie.jp/sp/ Just looked it up and It's based on the manga/book "summit of the gods". "it follows Fukamachi, a photographer who finds a camera supposedly belonging to George Mallory, a mountaineer who went missing on Mount Everest, and goes on a mountain-climbing adventure along with his friend Habu Joji"
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Feb 8, 2016 01:32
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Required viewing for the type of egotists who want to climb everest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaoYSiNDnI0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VRl0A4-G_Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbFl5cCNcB4
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Give me 38 if it is still available.
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ZombieLenin posted:Give me 38 if it is still available. I took that already, but we an share if you want.
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Feb 8, 2016 02:11
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Touching the Void, those guys were British as gently caress. Also: holy gently caress.
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SHISHKABOB posted:Touching the Void, those guys were British as gently caress. Was that the one where the guy and his best friend went up Everest, and only one came down and all his toes died and fell off? Because that one was really sad. Or was that the one where the guy thought he was going to die with Boney M going through his head?
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The second one. I think I'm creating a fear of heights for myself by watching this poo poo. It's unbelievable.
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Is any summit considered harder than K2? I know that Annapurna kills more climbers, but that’s mostly in avalanches. Avalanches don’t make the climb harder, they just add a Russian roulette element.
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I watched Meru last night and the shark fin certainly looks extremely difficult. I have no idea if it's more difficult than k2, but it looks it.
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I rewatched the 1996 IMAX documentary the other night. Holy crap is that documentary 90s as gently caress.
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#Everest has a new build available with a bunch of bugfixes, a few new features, and the latest death pool predictions as a secret easter egg that will only be visible while you are in the depths of madness. You can download it here Also #Everest won an award for best use of the theme "chill", and is the running for the community choice awards. If you liked #Everest you should vote for it here so that Shriya's sacrifice will not have been in vain
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Another cloud gif from the Everest region: https://giant.gfycat.com/EssentialBeneficialBlackfly.webm
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Sweet 64mb gif file dude. You're posting from Gfycat - use Gifv/webm Serak fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Feb 16, 2016 |
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Nuggan posted:Another cloud gif from the Everest region: https://giant.gfycat.com/EssentialBeneficialBlackfly.webm can we get one with a bunch of bodies laying there frozen?
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I think the amount will be 36
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Ziggy Starfucker posted:#Everest has a new build available with a bunch of bugfixes, a few new features, and the latest death pool predictions as a secret easter egg that will only be visible while you are in the depths of madness. You can download it here It just gives me a pop-up window telling me I'm not running the latest version, and I should go to the website and download it. 
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Comrade Koba posted:It just gives me a pop-up window telling me I'm not running the latest version, and I should go to the website and download it. I'll have a look at that, might be a caching issue with our server. Regardless, the game should still start after you click OK in the window! Let me know if it doesn't as that'd be a serious bug! (If it really won't start the game, turn off your internet and try running the game, if it can't connect to the server it won't give you a popup at all.) E: when did you download it? I checked our server and it's fine; I double checked the game code and that should be fine. Maybe you downloaded it before we pushed the update? Regardless, the game should still start; let me know if it doesn't. Xibanya fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Feb 16, 2016 |
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Comrade Koba posted:It just gives me a pop-up window telling me I'm not running the latest version, and I should go to the website and download it. It should still launch the game in a separate window after you close the version update notification, is it giving any additional errors? Also you've installed XNA 4.0 previously, right?
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Xibanya posted:I'll have a look at that, might be a caching issue with our server. Regardless, the game should still start after you click OK in the window! Let me know if it doesn't as that'd be a serious bug! After the pop-up it just closes down. The earlier builds did nothing when I tried to start them so no change there. I guess it just crashes for some reason without giving an error message. (Yes, I have both runtimes installed)
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Comrade Koba posted:After the pop-up it just closes down. What graphics card and version of Windows are you using?
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The UK's biggest hill could be claiming victims this year proving you don't have to go big to die up a mountain. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/16/tim-newton-rachel-slater-climbers-missing-ben-nevis-mountain
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Ziggy Starfucker posted:What graphics card and version of Windows are you using? Radeon HD 5870, Windows 10.
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Can I get 33 The mountain gods will be thirstay this yesr
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StoneOfShame posted:...proving you don't have to go big to die up a mountain. I lived in Arizona and people would die there on little mountains because 110 degrees F and no water or shade will do that to you faster than tourists think it will.
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