Hard Grit

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Hard Grit
Directed by Richard Heap
Produced by Mark Turnbull
Starring Ben Moon, Jerry Moffat, Seb Grieve (see Featured Climbers)
Release date(s) 1998 (UK)
Running time 53 min.
Language English

Hard Grit (1998) is a climbing film produced by Slackjaw Film, featuring climbing on gritstone in the North of England. It has won ten international film festival awards.

Contents

[edit] Featured Climbers

[edit] Featured Routes

  • End of the Affair (E8 6c)
  • Fat Slapper (E7 6c)
  • Gaia (E8 6c)
  • Kaluza Klein (E7 6c)
  • Marbellous (E8 7a)
  • Master’s Edge (E7 6c)
  • Meshuga (E9 6c)
  • Paralogism (E7 6c)
  • Parthian Shot (E9 7a)
  • Piece of Mind (E6 6b)
  • Renegade Master (E8 7a)
  • Samson (E9 7b)
  • The New Statesman (E8 7a)

[edit] Trivia

  • Lisa Rands, celebrated US climber became the first female climber to ascend Gaia in April 2006. On her site [1], she said "I saw the film Hard Grit, which immortalized this route, while in California, long before I ever imagined I'd one day get to climb on that amazing rock, let alone that route...The film opened with mind-blowing footage of the route Gaia. The fall taken by Jean-Minh Trinh-Thieu, swinging and crashing into the arete below, breaking his leg, became forever etched into my memory."

In Rock and Ice, Issue 152, Rands revealed just how much the footage had affected her; after slightly misplacing her feet, she reached out for a sloping hold: "Just when I touched the sloper, where Jean-Minh fell, that image flashed through my mind. I thought, 'Ooh, better try harder.'"

[edit] External links

  • Slackjaw Film page for Hard Grit
  • [2] PlanetFear Series: Hard Grit - Where are they now? (Part 1) ft. climbers Sam Whittaker, Jerry Moffat, and Neil Bentley
  • [3]] PlanetFear Series: Hard Grit - Where are they now? (Part 2) ft. producer Mark Turnbull
  • [4] PlanetFear Series: Hard Grit - Where are they now? (Part 3) ft. director Rich Heap and presenter / researcher of the film's history of gritstone climbing Niall Grimes
  • [5] PlanetFear Series: Hard Grit - Where are they now? (Part 4) ft. climbers Ben Moon and Dave Jones
  • [6] PlanetFear Series: Hard Grit - Where are they now? (Part 5) ft. climber John Dunne
  • [7] PlanetFear Series: Hard Grit - Where are they now? (Part 6) ft. climber Seb Grieve
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