[Closed] High Altitude (the BBC show)

I think you might be right, still good viewing though.

Helps fend off the "f##k it's monday tomorrow" feelings.

The Tyrolean crossing in New Zealand should have been dramatic and given us a sense of how high and scary it was - but most of the footage was rubbish and it just looked like hard work.

Likewise the descent down the Grand Coulior and the off-piste in Zermatt both looked spectacular, but we only got a few seconds of each.

I caught a bit of it but heard the word EXTREME !oo! once too many times, so switched off 🙂

tyrolean was SH1T
they made it much more difficult than it need be, looks like a load of bloody amateurs

As opposed to professional tyrolean traversers?

I think they said they were the most experienced tyrolean guys in New Zealand.

I suspect if they got the most experienced tyrolean guys in the Tyrol then they may have had more luck 🙂

It was a bit tenous as well. They didn't need to do the traverse, the chopper could have just dropped them on the other side.

All in all, it's a bit sh1t. Gave it a go last week and last night, shan't be watching any more.

Its trying to show a good thing IMO, just how fantastic mountains are, but I do think it doesnt always get it across very well.

It was funny watching Graham ski down the slope after rope work bit. The snow boarder guy just blasted down, but Graham was strugling. Strangely off piste he's not that good as his technique is all power and brute force without much finesse. On piste though that brute force makes him bloody difficult to keep up with!

To be fair, Ed Leigh (the snowboard bloke) is pretty handy on a board.

Trivia: Ed used to be the manager of [url= http://www.noahsark.co.uk/ ]Noah's Ark[/url].