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Sentinel: The West Face (1967) - Vintage rock climbing film

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  • Опубликовано: 22 май 2019
  • Very rare half-hour long feature, sourced from the 1979 MCA DiscoVision laserdisc release. A heavy rotter, but in my opinion, doesn't affect the picture that much making it fairly watchable.
    Side 1 of On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends is the dead side on this disc.
    If you are the copyright owner of this material and object to this upload, feel free to contact me and I will remove it. Thank you.

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  • @chopsjazz1
    @chopsjazz1 11 месяцев назад +11

    Lovely film. Yvon Chouinard and Royal Robins were true pioneers, breaking new territory and making the rules as they went forward. Things hadn't progressed much when I began climbing in the late 70's. There were just two choices for climbing shoes, but they were too expensive for guys like me. We were still using hip belays and tying into the rope with a bowline wrapped around our waist. The leader simply DID NOT FALL!

  • @CragCatDad
    @CragCatDad Год назад +12

    John Long - “The West Face now goes all free at 5.13, FFA by Kevin Jorgeson and Ben Rueck. Crux is on the 3rd pitch involving a huge leap/dynamic. But there's a lot of 5.12 on this pitch and it's 135 feet long. The splitter crack 2nd pitch is supposed to be one of the finest 5.11 cracks in the Valley and the upper wall is classic. It's also super clean and retrofitted with new bolt anchors (where needed) thanks to Ryan Sheridan and his YOSAR crew who put in 3 whole days cleaning and re-tooling this all-time classic. It's "museum quality" now. I suspect it will become a popular test piece for the modern free climber and a welcome change from binging on El Cap.”

  • @airmakay1961
    @airmakay1961 4 месяца назад +2

    Chouinard and Robbins truly climbing Royalty, in more than just name. In the time I have spent on Yosemite walls I never had orchestra accompaniment! Didn't know this film existed. Wonderful piece of essential Valley history.

  • @seananderson5450
    @seananderson5450 3 года назад +49

    What a nice film.. please don’t remove it. The younger set needs to see pitoncraft as it was. That film had spirit.

  • @bertjesklotepino
    @bertjesklotepino 3 года назад +25

    just imagine how this was filmed with cameras of that time.....

  • @bazcardinal1176
    @bazcardinal1176 2 года назад +6

    That was so amazing to watch. The swami belts, hammers and pitons. The old school version of the modern day portaledge, the hammock. Absolutely loved it.

  • @hjean6ugranger590
    @hjean6ugranger590 2 года назад +10

    Chouinard is wearing Kronhoffers and Robbins has on Pivetta Spiders.

  • @sgvincent100
    @sgvincent100 Год назад +8

    This 55-year-old film is fascinating. The cinematography is fantastic, the colors amazing! I am always curious how the soundtracks on older films, even documentaries, sound so loud and overbearing these days. I started rock climbing in the decade this film was made, and never noticed the soundtracks being so loud and intrusive. When I go back and watch films like Apocalypse Now, the Deer Hunter, or just about anything else from that era, I almost can’t watch because of the blasting musical score that sometimes even drowns out the dialogue. I’ve become so used to (and appreciative of) videos with minimal soundtracks - and better yet, just the captured ambient sound of, for example, the wind and the jingle of gear hanging from the rack and the climber’s breathing - that it’s a bit distracting watching the oldies. But this film is pure gold! ✌🏼

    • @6Haunted-Days
      @6Haunted-Days 8 месяцев назад

      I’d get your hearing checked….I’ve got awesome hearing (just had it tested) and I’ve never noticed this huge issue. It sounds different sure….this is clearly low quality and hasn’t been mastered even or fixed at all. But watching an old film but all fixed up….I never had an issue with movies and shows from that time having this blasting sound or can’t hear them. Sure sometimes it happens especially on RUclips videos modern ones I mean. But movies or shows not often at all. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I’m 52 but my dads hearing went at 50 and for DECADES he denied it….denial can be a hell of thing ….not saying you are tho! I just wanna hear the best I can, if I need something I’ll try and get it.

  • @lowjack100
    @lowjack100 10 месяцев назад +1

    Had me at the “harness .
    Even knowing these two would live on for decades,
    It was still thrilling. Top five for me.

  • @nelsonianb1289
    @nelsonianb1289 2 года назад +12

    this is a magnificent film, a classic in its own right, regardless that its happens to be climbing. Incredible that this was filmed back in 1967. Starting at Stoney Point and continues to the valley is truly inspiring. Granite calls, and the perfect granite of New Hampshire is quite far away and yosemite is so close. It isnt a desire I have to feel the power of that stone but a feeling of necessity, something I will regret not having done when I reach old age. And at the end showing the names of the mountaineers, two of the most important figures in modern activity of ascending stone. Thanks so much for this upload, this is incredibly inspiring, the stone calls, and I must answer.

    • @sgvincent100
      @sgvincent100 Год назад

      Thank you for sharing your inspiring thoughts. ✌🏼

  • @barbaracameron-smith7093
    @barbaracameron-smith7093 11 месяцев назад +1

    To see a climb of this nature, on a mountain of such acclaim, filmed in 1967, is just amazing.
    Wonderful introduction to mechanical climbing as I think they used to call it in the 'olden days'.

  • @CragCatDad
    @CragCatDad Год назад +3

    1200 ft (364 m), 11 pitches
    FA: Yvon Chouinard and Tom Frost (June 1960), FFA: Ben Rueck & Kevin Jorgeson (Sept. 2016)

  • @eduardoprestes1663
    @eduardoprestes1663 11 месяцев назад +1

    Nice, nice movie !!! Royal Robbins is unmistakable with his glasses and beret. And Chouinard is about to make the third ascent of Fitz Roy in 1968, with friends, coming from USA in a van.... With boots and pitons.... Hats off.

  • @feelmore1971
    @feelmore1971 3 года назад +4

    To read "Camp IV" from Steve Roper about the Yosemite's legend climbers ! Royal Robbins, Yvon "Patagonia" Chouinard, Tom Frost, Chuck Pratt, Jim Bridwell etc etc... Thank you for this great film.

  • @onesecondification
    @onesecondification 3 года назад +5

    "It is human expression, as individual as a name or a signature." very romantic

  • @CragCatDad
    @CragCatDad Год назад +2

    Wow what an incredible film! From the kinesthetic beauty to the cinematography, narration, and sound, this is a timeless masterpiece encompassing the liberating human expression we call climbing. I was wondering how this was shot but upon seeing the names Chuck Pratt, Tom Frost, and Roger Brown... of course!

  • @grumpygardner3059
    @grumpygardner3059 5 месяцев назад

    Those were some the top dogs. In my career, I'd never seen this. Thanks for keeping it up.

  • @Greg41982
    @Greg41982 8 дней назад

    "Consternation May Result." I think this is my new slogan.

  • @robertbeger4275
    @robertbeger4275 4 года назад +7

    My first "big wall" solo late 70s. Sort of remember some of the aid being really scary for me at the time.

  • @joachim9777
    @joachim9777 2 года назад +5

    Back then, being a climber meant a lot more than it does now. Great film, it's awesome to see how people climbed during those times.

  • @loopghost
    @loopghost Год назад

    pin scars make many of the valley's classics climbable. thanks for sharing, it's truly awe inspiring what the valley warriors were able to do with just grit and cajones.

  • @user-kb5fi1hm3u
    @user-kb5fi1hm3u Год назад +1

    Classic climbing. Kudos to the camera team

  • @stephenmichaelsherman
    @stephenmichaelsherman 2 года назад +2

    Phenomenal. Thank you for sharing.

  • @kickitwithnick3577
    @kickitwithnick3577 3 года назад +3

    crazy, these legends have probably long since passed

    • @arneboveng3756
      @arneboveng3756 3 года назад +11

      Yvon is very much still around. You are probably wearing a piece of his clothing right now. Tom Frost checked a short while ago, maybe 2 years ago and Royal a few years before that. Chuck Pratt left us maybe 15-20 years ago.

    • @susansheffield4057
      @susansheffield4057 Год назад

      Yvon Chounard is still alive, and just gifted his company Patagonia to try to save the earth. Royal Robbins died recently.

  • @nadavegan
    @nadavegan Год назад +7

    I encourage anyone with a recency bias to attempt a 5.9 in heavy boots, and having to let go to hammer in your protection.

    • @Will-kt5jk
      @Will-kt5jk 11 месяцев назад +2

      & with a fricking waste loop for a harness if you fall

    • @hansachs
      @hansachs 3 месяца назад

      ​@@Will-kt5jkit will waste you!

    • @johns3106
      @johns3106 2 дня назад

      @@Will-kt5jk Well….unlike now, nobody expected to fall. Falling was seen as a last resort, a failure, rather than falling over and over while “working” a route like everyone does now.

  • @theoutlier66
    @theoutlier66 3 года назад +5

    Bruh this is freakin insane.

  • @fernandofemenias9477
    @fernandofemenias9477 2 года назад

    I really lked this movie and the climb , so inspired to me.

  • @bobbyd7363
    @bobbyd7363 2 года назад

    love old climbing footage! thanks.

  • @sergeantcrow
    @sergeantcrow Год назад

    Excellent ! Thank you very much Donut Smasher..

  • @Leander_
    @Leander_ 2 года назад

    Super cool movie. Pioneers.

  • @beastthebeast212
    @beastthebeast212 Год назад +1

    peak documentary

  • @Finarphin
    @Finarphin 4 года назад +11

    West Face of Sentinel. Was VI, 5.9, A4. Don't know what it is now. Robbins and Chouinard. Looks like Chouinard is wearing Kronhofers.

    • @stevencooney9236
      @stevencooney9236 4 года назад +3

      Freed about two years back by Kevin Jorgensen and partner at about 5.13. The crux might avoid the expanding flake but I can't recall.

    • @nutritiousbreakfast
      @nutritiousbreakfast 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/nCkHjmOJyco/видео.html

  • @PNorthWDad
    @PNorthWDad 2 года назад +3

    Royal and Yvon

  • @genevievewoods7022
    @genevievewoods7022 3 года назад +5

    Anybody else watching the footwork? Ball of the foot, rather than toe. Interesting, how footwork evolved with the shoes. Did the shoe change the footwork, or did guys design the shoes to get more out of the toe?

    • @terraflow__bryanburdo4547
      @terraflow__bryanburdo4547 2 года назад +5

      Modern shoes focus the toes to the crafted edge. Back then it was a matter of smearing as much rubber as possible (and the rubber was not nearly as sticky)

  • @elig2714
    @elig2714 2 дня назад

    Whoaaa so fucking cool

  • @arlie505
    @arlie505 Год назад

    awesome !

  • @AM-jo2wl
    @AM-jo2wl 9 месяцев назад

    Wow…those guys where basically soloing & taking his partner with him if the leader falls

  • @jerrygreene1493
    @jerrygreene1493 4 месяца назад +1

    I wonder why it took so long to realize that nuts are far easier and often more secure than pitons? Who invented them when?

    • @jamesthomas4841
      @jamesthomas4841 2 месяца назад

      Climbers in the UK were putting machine nuts in cracks in the 1950s. Before that they were inserting pebbles and threading them.

    • @johns3106
      @johns3106 2 дня назад +1

      Chocks took a little while to catch on in the U.S…it’s hard to place your trust is something that’s merely wedged in the crack when you’ve been used to something that’s literally hammered in. But, Yvon and Royal were two of the big innovators when it came to the use and design of chocks. When this movie was made chocks were just starting to be experimented with in the US. Fun fact…hexes are they shape they are because they mimic the shape of the large machine nuts that were originally used as chocks in the U.K.

  • @Joe-ij6of
    @Joe-ij6of Год назад

    26:00
    “Sport❤ climbing!? Never heard of it! What’s that?”

  • @michaelcapeless3268
    @michaelcapeless3268 Год назад

    Royal Robbins and Yvon Chouinard in the early years.

  • @josemanuelmunoz1555
    @josemanuelmunoz1555 2 года назад +1

    Please don't remove this material , I think that one of the climbers is Ivon Chouinard , one leyend .

  • @theresa42213
    @theresa42213 2 года назад +2

    Seen this because of the Messner Film which has clips of cool climbing films. Dont climb though. l think these guys are crazy, but the vids are fascinating!

  • @climblife
    @climblife 3 года назад

    Great

  • @jamescampbell2521
    @jamescampbell2521 Год назад

    Wonder how many climbers fell wearing a swami belt back in the day & were severely injured. Like the old lap seat belt it may have saved your life but you still likely sustained serious injuries.

  • @bandworks11
    @bandworks11 4 года назад +4

    Why is there morning sun on the West Face of Sentinel?

  • @hewagoda
    @hewagoda Год назад

    great film. what are the names of these two climbers? thank you

  • @hemming57
    @hemming57 3 года назад

    Didn't see them climb the dogleg

  • @baileyayyy5085
    @baileyayyy5085 2 года назад +1

    I think im gonna just buy a van and drive around having adventures. Rather actually live life to the fullest like these guys while im young and be poor when im old. Whats the point of having money if you cant live your dreams.

    • @sgvincent100
      @sgvincent100 Год назад

      As an old guy who lived his dreams while young and is now poor - I urge you to try to provide for the older years when you’ll need some money lol.
      I wouldn’t have given up any one of my adventures, but shoulda started saving in my youth, consistently over the years, to ensure at least some security. Although I’ve loved my life, it’s hard to pay rent and buy groceries on memories. ✌🏼

    • @markstevenson6635
      @markstevenson6635 8 месяцев назад

      These guys both became wealthy selling outdoor gear and clothing.

  • @deannilvalli6579
    @deannilvalli6579 2 года назад

    Royal Robbins and Steve Roper?

  • @Mrrugbykid1
    @Mrrugbykid1 5 лет назад

    what was the Spanish song named?

  • @rptrj1384
    @rptrj1384 4 года назад

    what if they lose the hammer :|

  • @GnomicMaster
    @GnomicMaster 10 месяцев назад

    OMG, fucking hilarious. Those goofy-ass knickers and knee socks. Did they think they were Swiss climbing the Matterhorn circa 1900? The dude wearing the passe white golf cap looks like my old dead pal Royal. Talk about the evolution of climbing. All those Lost Arrows and bongs laid out on that tarp. I last used any version of a piton over 50 years ago. And that old school way of making a waist harness. Thanks for this amusing walk back into my distant past.