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The Asgard Project 15-Apr-2010 At 12:14:37 PM evanbb

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On 15/04/2010 One Day Hero wrote:
>How would you possibly know that? Because you saw footage of it? Because
>the filmmakers described how extreme it all was?
>
>Use your friggin' head mate! Was the primary goal here to climb something
>or to make a movie and some money? Now, I would guess that these guys were
>somewhere in the middle but it will get to the point where climbing films
>will be at the Bear Grills end of the continuum. Don't believe everything
>you see!

It can be a fine distinction to draw ODH. For guys like Sharma, Houlding, and the guy with the big nose who's dating Steph Davis, the line between shameless self-promotion and the desire to climd can be hard to distinguish. The self promotion is an enabler to climbing; how can you separate the 2? If you're going to be a professional climber, you need to choose to do things that other people want to pay you to do.

I agree that I would rather see the pure adventure of it all, but they remain business people.