The good thing about an east wind means it is usually a dry day on the hill for the west coast mountains. Superb panoramas from the summit and camera placement for the skyline shots are fantastic, not even a wobble in that strong wind. I had a windy, wet and sleety autumn day on Resipol , my notes have words from Sorley Maclean ... "Wind and stone is the world of the summit, stone and rain, stone, wind and cold, only the oldest things remain”. Beautiful filming ... and so are the mountains of Sunart
Thanks for the Sorley Maclean lines. Very good summary! Was a challenge keeping the camera steady in the wind. In fact the camera blew over at one point and I smashed a filter (luckily not the lens).
A serious physical challenge transformed for your viewers into sparkling spindrift, a blustering wind without its chill. This video and your previous one should be studied by many other exponents of the genre for examples of imaginative noticing, your gift of seeing what should be filmed to make the final video convery immediate experience rather than a generic record of streams crossed, cols crossed, etc. The surprise transition from you fighting to the top of some rocks (5.50) to the bleached and icy grass clinging on up there (5.56) has a kind of humility to it, a self-equalising. Harmen Hoek, brilliant in this genre, always concludes his films with a near-subliminal bible reference: had he filmed this climb, he'd have cited Psalm 103: 15-18 in the King James Version: "As for man, his days are as grass: As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more." [There's a different kind of shiver for you!]
Thanks again Roy. Your comments are always so thoughtful and detailed. I'm glad you notice all the little things. The big vistas are such an important part of the experience but so are the smaller details around our feet, as well as that intangible sense of place that is so hard to convey in a film.
