Houte Route

[John Shingler]

Watched this yesterday and thought it was rather good. So I'm sharing it with you guys.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-M29rBstEQ

 

[Globalti]

I've skied the Haute Route - is it the same but without snow?

Edit: Definitely not! Watch this, it's excellent.

 

[jdtate101]

Would love to have a crack at the Haute Route, but not sure I can either afford it or that my marriage would survive the amount of time spent training for it.

 

[Moodyman]

That looks painful.

 

[Tanis8472]

That looks painful but brilliant

 

[John Shingler]

Would love to have a crack at the Haute Route, but not sure I can either afford it or that my marriage would survive the amount of time spent training for it.

Rule #11
// Family does not come first. The bike does.
Sean Kelly, being interviewed after the ’84 Amstel Gold Race, spots his wife leaning against his Citroën AX. He interrupts the interview to tell her to get off the paintwork, to which she shrugs, “In your life the car comes first, then the bike, then me.” Instinctively, he snaps back, “You got the order wrong. The bike comes first.

 

[jdtate101]

Rule #11
// Family does not come first. The bike does.
Sean Kelly, being interviewed after the ’84 Amstel Gold Race, spots his wife leaning against his Citroën AX. He interrupts the interview to tell her to get off the paintwork, to which she shrugs, “In your life the car comes first, then the bike, then me.” Instinctively, he snaps back, “You got the order wrong. The bike comes first.

Yeah, until your wife kicks you in the balls!!

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Superb film, by hell they suffered in the name of fun.

 

[John Shingler]

Yeah, until your wife kicks you in the balls!!

true

 

[Globalti]

The mountain guide Kenton Cool who appears briefly - is that really his original family name?

 

[John Shingler]

Apparently it is ....and he pops up and down Everest like most people go to the paper shop.