Hard grit
Hard Grit is a 53-minute documentary from the 1998 production of Slackjaw Film. It shows several well-known sport climbers on routes of high difficulty in Gritstone in the north of England ( Peak District and Yorkshire ). The film received several international film festival awards.
production
The film was made by director Richard Heap without a precise script. Both Heap and producer Mark Turnbull knew both the gritstone mountain ranges shown and a large part of the protagonists.
Sport climbers in the film (in alphabetical order)
- Robin Barker
- Neil Bentley
- John Dunne
- Johnny Dawes
- Richard Ekehed
- Niall Grimes
- Seb Grieve
- Leo Houlding
- Dave Jones
- Jerry Moffatt
- Ben Moon
- Jean-Minh Trin-Thieu
- Sam Whittaker
Routes in the film
- End of the Affair (E8 6c)
- Fat Slapper (E7 6c)
- Gaia (E8 6c).
- Kaluza Klein (E7 6c)
- Marbellous (E8 7a)
- Master's Edge (E7 6c)
- Meshuga (E9 6c)
- Paralogism (E7 6c)
- Parthian Shot (E9 7a)
- Piece of Mind (E6 6b)
- Renegade Master (E8 7a)
- Samson (E9 7b)
- The New Statesman (E8 7a)
Awards
- Katherine A. Rae Award 1999
- Kendal Mountain Film Festival: Best Climbing Film 1999
Web links
- "Hard Grit" on the website of the film production company Slackjaw Film
- The GritList: List of suggested climbing routes on oocities.com
Individual references / comments
- ↑ Interview with Seb Grieve on go-mountain.com
- ↑ "Hard Grit - Where Are They Now? Seb Grieve" - April 4, 2005 ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ US sport climber Lisa Rands on the Gaia route, inspired by the film ( memento of the original from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.mountainfest.co.uk/
