Czech climbing history on film!

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Allen Hill

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CO.
Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 11, 2011 - 04:07am PT
I know the whole story but am too beat up to explain it tonight. In the meantime this is a fun little trailer, soon to be a film, about the history of a route on a very famous sandstone tower. As a side note, the boys who are depicted in the film all ended up in the Terezin concentration camp for plotting against the Nazis. Two of them died there. The route is now considered hard 5.10. 1939.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_utLcjSf0
golsen

Social climber
kennewick, wa
Apr 11, 2011 - 01:03pm PT
Way cool. Bump!
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Apr 11, 2011 - 07:12pm PT

Czech it out!!!!!
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Sep 11, 2011 - 11:09am PT
SWEET!
Allen Hill

Social climber
CO.
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 11, 2011 - 08:21pm PT
I just attended the Teplice Mountain Film festival as they showed "Jump!" at the opening ceremony in honor of Zorka Prachtel. It was amazing and a real honor. Anyhow the film these guys put together won the Peoples Prize! It's totally cool and really well done. I hope they get it out to western audiences. A f*#king awesome film. I really wish more films were made about our history. Sadly there's no money for it unlike the funding our European counterparts seem to have at their disposal. And product placement free to boot.
Allen Hill

Social climber
CO.
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2012 - 10:28pm PT
I just found this. Yes they are speaking German. The first ascent of the spire was done by Germans. The second ascent Czechs. That's what the film is all about. Anyhow I hope it makes its way to North America at some point.
nutstory

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Ajaccio, Corsica, France
Sep 1, 2015 - 03:20am PT
skcreidc

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SD, CA
Sep 1, 2015 - 05:54am PT
A Thank-You for bumping this bump. Great stuff!
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