Alpe d'Huez: The Hollywood Climb
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- The Tour de France is revered for offering up some of the most challenging racing, the most iconic landscapes and the most grueling climbs.
We present to you, in association with Oakley, the first film in our exclusive three-part web series on the climbs of the Tour:
Alpe d'Huez: The Hollywood Climb
Credits:
Script writer: Daniel Friebe
Voice artist: Tony Haygarth
Rider: Andrew Cruikshank
Producer: Jim Eveleigh
Camera: Paul Stevenson & Alun Pughe
DoP: Paul Stevenson
Editor: Chris Urmston
Post production lead: Chris Urmston
Colour grade and motion graphics: Tom Lee & Daniel Pearce
Original score & sound design: Thom Thomas-Watkins
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Voiceover sound engineer: Rob Wills
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Here's the script written by Daniel Friebe:
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Alpe d'Huez: The Hollywood Climb
The official historian of the Tour, Jacques Augendre, dubbed it the "Hollywood" climb and not everyone thought that was a compliment. The 21 hairpins coiling out of the Oisans valley to Alpe d'Huez have long since taken their place among the icons of the Tour, but to some the climb remains a newfangled, madeforTV gimmick, with none of the gravitas and little of the history of a Ventoux or a Galibier.
Their mistake is to place the Alpe in that company, and not to recognise its uniqueness. Because no other cycling arena can match its atmosphere. Nowhere else does the arrival of the Tour inspire such festivity, bring out such numbers, cause such electricity.
Every day of the year, on average, just over 300 amateur cyclists ride out of Bourg d'Oisans and onto the corkscrew. 13.9 kilometres with an average gradient of 8.2% and a maximum of 12. No amateur ever comes close to the rocket fuelled 37 minutes and 35 seconds set by Marco Pantani in 1997, but most are content just to have seen and conquered cycling's equivalent of the Walk of Fame. The hairpins count down from 21 as the road tacks up the mountainside, each one bearing the name of a former winner or winners on the Alpe. Number 7, on its own, is one of the great sporting theatres, a revelrous enclave of the Netherlands they call "Dutch corner".
Their noise accompanies the riders all the way to the summit. A motley arrangement of hotels and ski chalets builds in frequency to the peak of this most iconic of climbs.
The naysayers may cast eyes longingly south and east towards the higher, highborn Galibier, but Augendre was right about cycling's Hollywood Hill. And, yes, why shouldn't that be a compliment?
ENDS
Very beautiful videography, emotional music, and excellent information! Thank you for making and posting this video.
Nice to see it so traffic free rather than crowded with tourist cars, delivery trucks and resort buses that crowd the climb each day. It brings back hideous memories of riding La Marmotte. 'Rocket Fuel' euphemism was a little coy. Skewer was a mistake though.
Alpe d'Huez is my favorite ski resort!
Schoolboy error! Said Bonjour then struggled to drop him...we've all been there!
so well done
Love your video. I hope to do Alp d'Huez next year.
Great video you guys!!!! BikeRadar id's killing it this year on RUclips! Side note, glasses go on the outside of your straps dude ;-)
Thanks, means a lot to us that you think so! As for the straps thing, we maintain that it's a personal choice. Andrew is one of the very few riders who prefers them on the inside, so that's how he rode for the shoot.
BikeRadar Cool, cool.
I've climbed this mountain six times in a row during 1 day for a Dutch event called Alpe d'HuZes, or Alpe d'HuSix. It was for cancer awereness, you should check it out, great event!
great video
Very good and original video! Lately, your videos seems to be very similar to GCN's. Well done!
Thanks Chanon! As for the GCN thing, both channels make videos about cycling, so inevitably there will be some overlap. Like, for example, the road bike stunt video starring Martyn Ashton we posted in 2010 and the road bike stunt video starring Martyn Ashton that GCN posted seven months ago.
NIce!
successfully done some days before, great climb
Rocket fuel. ;)
nice video!
Not sure about your pronunciation of Bourg d'oisans though 😬
He's had a mare with his socks here.
helmet straps over sunglasses - on something sponsored by oakleys?.... okay
Nice socks, dude!
Realise it is sponsored by Oakley but there are far too many close ups of the riders face.
Where can I watch the tour free....
On the road side of every stage.
Search tour de france stream
go to letour.fr and search for broadcasters on bottom om page.
tv5 or sky
Walid nitro btw I live in the USA and no nab sport subscription
Your video has been selected by our staff, great work! Thanks to Chris Urmston for let us know ;)
Alpe d'Huez no other cycling arena can match its atmosphere.
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Shades under the helmet straps WTF 😳
This guy needs to put his skewer on the right way. Wonder if the tire is backwards too.
it's a rental ;o)
And have his helmet strap done up and put his glasses over the strap
300 a day on average!!? really?
Hate the music. Really odd, no resolution.
I thought the music really set the scene and provided good atmosphere. The film would have been very dry without any decent music.
actually this would be the few instances where a generic "epic" symphonic score would be a better fit than this offbeat stuff
Girls climb