Thursday, December 23, 2004

Don't call me buddy, pal, or sweetheart....

Had another craving for a climb, but it was nigh on 2300hrs, so the North Face of the Eiger had to do. Some facts:

Writer: Trevanian
Director: Clint Himself
Score: The Man, John Williams. Woohoo.

Cool Facts:

The shoot marked the last time that anyone was allowed to climb the "Totem Pole" in Monument Valley. In return for permission to film there, climbers with the production had to remove all of the pitons, which had accumulated from years of climbing, on their way down. (What is a piton? Just Kidding. Glad we moved away from that. Driving a spike into a natural formation to allow it to freeze and thaw and crack and crack more and more is criminal.)

One climber died during the shoot.

Clint did all of his own stunts, including the scene where he cuts his safety line over a drop of at least one thousand feet.

1 Comments:

Blogger Any Clime and Place said...

Too scary....that and Darkness. Nope. uh-uhhh.....

December 26, 2004 at 7:41 PM  

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