Danny Macaskill: The Ridge
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The Ridge is the brand new film from Danny Macaskill... For the first time in one of his films Danny climbs aboard a mountain bike and returns to his native home of the Isle of Skye in Scotland to take on a death-defying ride along the notorious Cuillin Ridgeline.
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Credits
A Film by Cut Media - CutMedia.com
Director: Stu Thomson
Camera/Drone Gimbal: Stu Thomson,
Scott Marshall
Drone Pilot: Lec Park
Mountain Guide: Matt Barratt
Assistants: Alan Blyth,
Paul Smail
Titles: Sandra Ord
Colourist: Guido Snieder
Music: Blackbird by Martyn Bennett, taken from the album GRIT.
Special Thanks To:
Five Ten,
ENVE Components,
Santa Cruz Bicycles,
Visit Scotland,
SkyeAdventure.co.uk,
GoPro,
Skye Boat Trips,
Macloed Estate,
LowePro Bags,
Thanks: Anne & Peter Macaskill,
Donnie Macphee,
Andy McCandlish,
John@SkyeAdventure,
Mike Pescott,
Hamish Barbour,
Frazer Coupland,
Paul Diffley,
Chris Prescott,
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A Film by Cut Media - CutMedia.com
Music:
Blackbird
by Martyn Bennett
Taken from the album GRIT
Courtesy of Real World Records
FIVE MONTHS (EMFF teaser)
Full film now available online:
The Scottish Highlands - great terrain, unpredictable weather.
WINTER 2012-13
- 21 skiers
- 10 locations
- 7 bikes
- a Tower Double
- 1 ladder
and 1 chimney
FIVE MONTHS
...a theph mack film
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- Spinning Blowfish -
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Massive thanks to:
- Whitedot skis - weapons, not souvenirs: can't wait to get out on them...
- Dirty Dog eyewear, Bern helmets & Craigdon Mountain Sports (best ski-techs this side of the Highland line..);
- Blair Aitken, for his Facebook forum (keep in touch) and Alan for WinterHighland.info;
- God, for an amazing run of weather last season (need more praying types in the ski community); and
- all those who shared their footage to make this happen.
Premier showing, Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival 2014 - 14-16 February 2014
... wow, that takes me back... - Martin Burrows-Smith
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Crazy people doing amazing and dangerous things, inspiring and terrifying hundreds and thousands of civilians with cameras on a beautiful day at the Nevis Range...
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Scottish climber among three dead in 2,000ft Canada fall
A man from Scotland has been killed with two women in a fall of nearly 2,000ft down a mountain in Canada.
The bodies of Neil Mackenzie, 31, Elena Cernicka, 35 and Stephanie Grothe, 30, were found below Joffre Peak, in the Pemberton area of British Columbia.
According to the British Columbia Coroners Service, they were ice-climbing on 11 January when they are thought to have fallen down a couloir.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was providing assistance.
Mr Mackenzie and Ms Grothe were members of the University of British Columbia Outdoors Club. Ms Cernicka was said to have been a friend of Mr Mackenzie, but was not a member of the club.
'Scottish hardman'
In a statement released on its Facebook page, the club said Mr MacKenzie was passionate about the mountains, adding: He dedicated a lot of his time to instructional trips with the club, always providing encouraging words to struggling participants.
To us, he was the epitome of the proverbial Scottish hardman. He was an immensely cheerful person, always looking for the next adventure and always good for sharing a drink and a good conversation with.
He found adventure anywhere and brought humour with him everywhere he went. Any trip with him was guaranteed to be fun. We will all miss him a lot.
Neil Mackenzie was a keen climber and mountaineer having climbed and ski-toured widely in Scotland, the European Alps, the Canadian Rockies and Alaska.
He was a post doctoral fellow in the Centre for Blood Research at the University of British Columbia, based in Vancouver. He completed his PhD in Molecular Biology and Transgenics at the Roslin Institute, which is part of Edinburgh University.
Staff Sgt Steve Leclair, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the climbers were part of a group of five but they had split up before the fall.
The husband of one of the climbers searched for his wife when they did not return and found her body before raising the alarm.
Members of Pemberton Search and Rescue then began searching at first light on 12 January.
The Coroners Service statement said the victims had apparently fallen more than 600 metres down a couloir.
Sgt Leclair said the dead were all found deceased within 40m of each other.
From what it appears, they had climbed up the main Joffre Peak and got very near the top - and then had a very tragic fall, he said.
The Coroners Service said Mr Mackenzie and Ms Grothe, from Germany, had been living in Vancouver.
The FCO spokeswoman said: We are providing consular assistance to the family at this difficult time.
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