Comments on: Updated: Mount St. Elias — Ski Descents, Red Bull film

By: IES

IES — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:56:03 +0000

Just saw the flick this eve, and despite it’s professional production (and obviously huge budget), I was put off by the over-hype/dramatization. Also, as a first-hand witness (with Brian-in-slc who posted above) for the party who skied down the other side of St.E in 2000, I didn’t like the RedBull marketing machine taking credit for such a ‘first’ and ignoring this earlier descent. With a little more humility and fewer corporate dollars, my helmet would be off to anyone who is good/lucky enough just to get up that stupendous peak.
They did do a reasonable job of capturing the “fine” weather that St.E can produce!

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:46:46 +0000

Andrew, it’ll be fine. Don’t reread. As for Haydon shoulder, wasn’t I just saying how far above sea level they quit skiing?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:33:27 +0000

I am not volunteering to be your editor, but I think the Haydon shoulder was greater than 800 vertical feet. Do you want me to point out the rest as well? Because I really don’t want to reread the whole article again.

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:21:52 +0000

I did discover the use of “form” as “from,” perhaps that was the problem.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:50:04 +0000

I think Lou’s writing and copy editing is in general excellent, especially for a blog. I don’t see any problems with writing in the story above, and this review is important because people may find it and get a clearer idea of the real context for this movie.