May 10, 2019

Filming Opening and Planning Scenes

This morning, Matt, Astrid and Ryan ventured to the Weston Library in Oxford to re-create some of the planning stages of the expedition before we left for West Africa. It was great fun, and we’d like to extend a huge thanks to Nick and Stu for making it happen, and taking us up onto the roof to get quite an amazing view of Oxford which we hadn’t seen before!

The view from the roof terrace at the Weston

We also filmed the opening scene to our film in
Buongiorno e Buonasera in Headington. Again, thanks to the staff there for letting us film.

We’ve got a big weekend of editing ahead, so watch this space for hopefully some more teaser clips next week!

May 7, 2019

Editing has Begun!

The Film is underway!

Matt and Ryan sat down this weekend to begin the momentus task of editing the enormous amount of footage from the trip back in January. We’ve also been lucky enough to have a team of people volunteer to help edit the rushes for different segments of the film which we can then bring together into what will hopefully be a cohesive piece of film for people to enjoy. Once we’ve compiled the rushes for different segment we’ll begin working out the structure of what we’ve shot so we can share with the audience the most authentic but also the most interesting version of the events that unfolded in Africa. Some of the sections include cleaning and climbing Le Dent De Man (The tooth) visiting the local school and showing them how to climb (Spoiler alert, they were pretty damn good!) and a few of Alkis’ epics through the jungle and on the climbs. We’re really excited to start sharing bits of footage with everyone. Watch this space and stay tuned! 

May 3, 2019

Happy Friday, Everyone

Another week draws to a close, and more work has been going on behind-the-scenes this week to get our film out to you as soon as possible.

We came across this clip of Ollie and Alkis topping out Insomnie (E4, 6a) on La Dent de Man, and thought it sums up our camaraderie pretty nicely. A lot of blood, sweat and tears (unfortunately literally) had gone into the build up of this moment. We think it’s pretty neat. Peace.

The striking Dent de Man. Image credit: Matt Greenwell