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Araps/Buffalo '85 Climbing Movie

climbermum

17-Apr-2011
3:37:38 PM

1985 arapiles and buffalo hard climbing featuring Malcolm Matheson and Louise Shepherd, filmed by Nadia Green

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmDP1RRh2CI&feature=related


Miguel75

17-Apr-2011
8:05:36 PM

That lycra flashback was awesome, thanks for sharing Nadia. I love part 2 where Louise completes a climb, Have a good flight?, sits on a small ledge and calls down, "I'm safe!"

Being a sooky la-la, I don't call "I'm safe" until i'm tied into at least 15 different pieces...:)

climbermum

18-Apr-2011
11:23:20 AM

Yeah, I must admit, we broke a few rules for dramatic effect, e.g. Malcom lying down casually while belaying Louise (he doesn't normally do this guys!)


nmonteith

18-Apr-2011
3:30:17 PM

Who are some of the other characters in this film? The girl with the blond punk cut? The older bearded gentleman with the squeeky voice?


nmonteith

18-Apr-2011
3:32:44 PM

And the sandbag grades are awesome - Scorpion Corner a grade 18?!


Eduardo Slabofvic

18-Apr-2011
4:06:21 PM

On 18/04/2011 nmonteith wrote:
>Who are some of the other characters in this film? The girl with the blond
>punk cut? The older bearded gentleman with the squeeky voice?

Thats me


nmonteith

18-Apr-2011
4:08:51 PM

On 18/04/2011 Eduardo Slabofvic. wrote:
>Thats me

The blond girl with the beard?


wonderdog

18-Apr-2011
5:12:44 PM

Can Eduardo grow a beard?


joycepg

18-Apr-2011
8:08:55 PM

On 17/04/2011 Miguel75 wrote:
> I love part 2 where Louise completes a climb, Have a good flight?, sits on a small
>ledge and calls down, "I'm safe!"
I know! I had to laugh too. Louise taught me to lead climb a few years ago, and would have chastised me severely for that!


hangdog

18-Apr-2011
8:50:55 PM

Did everyone climb on helium back in the day??

kieranl

18-Apr-2011
9:31:16 PM

On 18/04/2011 nmonteith wrote:
>Who are some of the other characters in this film? The girl with the blond
>punk cut?
Andrea Hayes. The rehearsal put into her lead of Scorpion Corner almost matches those of Andy Pollitt on Punks and Eddy Ozols on Procul. Still a great lead on her part.


pmonks

19-Apr-2011
8:29:54 AM

I love how no matter who / when someone is winging off, she's still at about the same place in the corner. She must have been climbing for hours!

Great video btw, and thanks for sharing it! Does anyone have that early / mid 1980s ABC doco set at Araps? I have an ultra-vague memory of seeing it on TV at the time (more than a decade before I took up climbing) and would love to see it again!


cruze

19-Apr-2011
9:17:44 AM

Fantastic movie - thank you for your efforts.

climbermum

19-Apr-2011
4:15:25 PM

It's Andrea Hayes with the blonde hair, Dennis Kemp (since deceased) is the older guy, Robin Williams from Natimuk is the beginner girl...
Andrea only led the grade 18 section of Scorpion Corner, not the 22 section, hence we called it a "grade 18 corner", we were trying to include every type of climb...it was filmed on 16mm film before the digital age, with radio microphones


Miguel75

19-Apr-2011
10:27:31 PM

I've read a few articles/stories that featured Dennis Kemp and it was really nice putting a face to a name.

off_route

20-Apr-2011
7:18:09 AM

Great video!!


Organ Pipe

20-Apr-2011
10:44:26 AM

Fantastic vid. Love the subtle differences between 80's Australian speech, and today's.

20-Apr-2011
6:10:13 PM

On 19/04/2011 pmonks wrote:

>Great video btw, and thanks for sharing it! Does anyone have that early
>/ mid 1980s ABC doco set at Araps? I have an ultra-vague memory of seeing
>it on TV at the time (more than a decade before I took up climbing) and
>would love to see it again!

Would that be the "International Climbing Meet" at Araps? the VCC tried to get a copy of that some years back but the ABC marketing department put a rather hefty price tag on it. When it was broadcast there were some technical hitches and unannounced they showed it full again the following night. They also put a big price on other things that they filmed but never showed on TV. Baxter and Dewhurst on Tourist Buttress at Rosea for example. Other things that were broadcast were Ewbank and others on Dogface having hamburgers lowered to them and more besides. The ABC has a decent collection of Australian climbing history locked away in their vaults, all it takes is someone with many dollars to unlock it.

climbermum

20-Apr-2011
7:26:16 PM

there was an ABC doco of 2 guys doing "A Taste of Honey" in the 1970's too, I think it was Andrew Thomson and Nic Taylor...

White Trash

24-Aug-2011
11:48:22 PM

On 17/04/2011 climbermum wrote:
>1985 arapiles and buffalo hard climbing featuring Malcolm Matheson and
>Louise Shepherd, filmed by Nadia Green
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmDP1RRh2CI&feature=related

i just ried to watch this and got a message

This video contains content from EMI, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
Sorry about that.

any chance of seeing it now or is it history?

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