In reply to ecrinscollective:
Great recommendation thanks despite the contrived emotional arc (spoiler "I thought he was an egocentric French arse but he turned out to be a nice guy".)
Vivian's ropework was a lesson. I mean, it had no "work" in it ! It was just fluent deployment of a bag of appropriate techniques, amazing to watch. I mean, OK, it was a good edit and I haven't been doing much myself or hanging around guides for a few years, but it was an eye-opener.
Between that and the bombproof skiing, it really brought play back into the moutains. A huge step from sweating and hawking up something, hauling hawser and making sure my belay adds up to 21 and then flying over my tips if, for example, it was me making a death-defying assault on Lurcher's or something... inspiring in a good, relatable, "I could learn something here" way.
Now for, presumably, the prior 44 vids...
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