[TV] Free Solo on TV this week

Jesus Gul

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Feb 23, 2004

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• Mar 13, 2019

• #41

Watched this and yes very good. Yosemite looks amazing.

I hope The North Face and Patagonia contributed to costs. Lots of product placement there

 

LlcoolJ

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Oct 14, 2009

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Sheffield

• Mar 13, 2019

• #42

Jesus Gul said:

Watched this and yes very good. Yosemite looks amazing.

I hope The North Face and Patagonia contributed to costs. Lots of product placement there

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Sponsorship is the massive majority earner for climbers. The sponsors will have paid for a HUGE percentage of the cost of the film.

 

Acker79

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• May 19, 2019

• Thread starter
• #43

For those that don't have National Geographic, Free Solo will be on Channel 4 on Thursday at 9pm.

 

Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP

Jul 5, 2003

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• May 20, 2019

• #44

Nicely done, an excellent heads up.

I watched this film AGOG. Never seen anything like it, and my brain will never let me understand the mindset of someone who does this. My natural tendency is to keep myself away from instant death as much as is possible, on the whole. This guy though...bloody hell.

 

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Palacefinder General

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• May 20, 2019

• #45

Cheers for the heads-up Acker. Sweaty palms film making of the highest order, and thankfully nothing to do with Disney's ongoing trashing of the Star Wars brand, although featuring the most alien pair of enormous brown eyes ever inserted into a human head.

 

BRIGHT ON Q

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• May 25, 2019

• #46

Just watched this on catch up, incredible feat.

 

Stat Brother

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• May 26, 2019

• #47

BRIGHT ON Q said:

Just watched this on catch up, incredible feat.

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and fingers.

 

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Cheeky Monkey

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Jul 17, 2003

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• May 3, 2023

• #48

Just watched The Alpinist, a SKY documentary on NOW. It makes Free Solo look like a genteel stroll up Devil’s Dyke. Fearless, incredible stuff with a jaw dropping conclusion, deserved a big screen outing.

 

Stat Brother

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• May 3, 2023

• #49

In a rare excursion away from telling everybody to watch Netflix's Battered B*****ds of Baseball, those of you liking Free Solo may well enjoy:-

Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau

It's another great human story, only Eddie is considerably more human!!

I believe it's on Disney.