The Marathon man..

Check out this video.  I did some filming with Triple Echo Productions for the Adventure Show on BBC2 Scotland.  Dr Andrew Murray will be running from the top of Scotland to the sand dunes of the Sahara, covering just short of 3000 miles, in 85 consecutive days (that's over 100 marathons!!)
He's aiming to raise £100,000 for the Yamaa Trust charity to help reduce poverty in the South Gobi region of Mongolia.
If you'd like to donate some money (lets face it, it's well deserved!!) you can do so by clicking here

Oh, and some of the footage is from a Go Pro camera..

DANNY MACASKILL: WAY BACK HOME

I didn't realise Scotland was so sunny!!
Nice little video of Mr MacAskill up to his usual tricks.  Quite a nice little advert for this country of ours..

Winter has arrived..

Well up north anyway!
After the dry tooling comp at the Ice Factor in Kinlochleven on Saturday we decided to shake off the hangover and go for a plod in Glencoe to see what the winter conditions are like.  To my surprise, winter conditions had arrived!!  Quite exciting really!!

Looking towards Stob Coire nan Lochan, Glencoe

The main climbs of Stob Coire nan Lochan

GO PRO

Spent some cash and got myself a Go Pro HD video camera.
If you don't know what this is, check out the video below - I'm off to play!!

goprocamera.com

Triple5

At the end of some amazing filming - Photo: Triple Echo / Dom Scott

The 5 Climbs, 5 Islands, 5 Days film from Triple Echo Productions will be shown on BBC2 Scotland.

Originally filmed as a back up for the Great Climb, It will be shown in two x 1 hour shows on BBC2 Scotland, Sky 990, iplayer on October 19th and 26th at 19.00

From Dave's blog - "We travelled about the Hebrides on a big boat, attempting some really hard new routes back to back over 5 days. You’ll have to watch the programmes to see the outcome but I can tell you it was the best trip I’ve had new routing in the Hebrides, certainly one of the hardest and definitely with the most falls!  The culmination of the trip trying a brilliant 2 pitch line of perfect black Gabbro on St Kilda was unbelievable."

Find out more at - Triple Echo Productions and Dave MacLeod's blog

Filming on St Kilda - Photo: Triple Echo / Dom Scott

Great Lectures - Great Names

The Scottish Tooling Series folk have arranged some great lectures as part of the competition entertainment - however these are open to everyone not just toolers...

Kev Sheilds - Glenmore Lodge, October 23 2010

Simon Richardson - Aberdeen, October 30 2010

Andy Kirkpatrick - Off the Wall - Kinlochleven - November 13 2010

Ian Parnell - Blood, Sweat and Frozen Tears - EICA Ratho, November 27 2010


Book online at: scottishtoolingseries.co.uk

As It Happens..

Nice little video from Camp4collective.

Shot with a Canon EOS 5D MKII camera - very nice...

As It Happens

As It Happens from renan ozturk on Vimeo.

Scottish Tooling Series

The 2010 series starts next weekend with a return to Glasgow, followed by Glenmore lodge, Aberdeen, Kinlochleven and Ratho.

Find out more about the competition, lectures and how to enter at the link below.
http://www.scottishtoolingseries.co.uk/

The Great Climb

Filming on the Great Climb is definitely the best job I've ever been involved with.  It was truly memorable in so many ways.
For me it was 5 days on Harris for the live broadcast, plus another week earlier in the summer filming the triple 5, but for many it was several years in the making.  A great effort by all involved.  Find out more on the Triple Echo Productions website.

http://www.tripleecho.co.uk/Triple_Echo_Productions/Great_Climb.html

The Sron awaits...

Off tomorrow morning to film 'The Great Climb' for Triple Echo Productions, showing on the BBC.

Watch the trailer at the link below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/8938527.stm

BBC Great Climb

Check out Dave's blog for all the latest on the Great Climb..

http://davemacleod.blogspot.com/

New climbing harness..

Went up town to buy a new harness and was faced with this....

That'll be the festival then!!

Picture Test...

Thought I'd upload this and see what happens...

Test two

complicated stuff this..

In the beginning...

This is a test to see if it works.. or to see if I've worked it oot...