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“Addictions can be very, very bad but addiction itself is not bad.
It’s a case of what you’re addicted to.
You better live each day like it’s your last, ‘cos one day you’re going to be right”.
Ray Charles.
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The Launch Helmet Cams business is the creation of Matt Fitzhardinge and Markland O’Connell, 2 Western Australians who just love doing lots of this stuff, so you can be confident if you contact them to get a straight answer on the use of a cam you have in mind, they’ll match you with the right cam and with the right amount of coin you want to spend.
Launch is Australia's leading supplier of helmet cameras and onboard video solutions and they have a large range of helmet camera products to suit every application and budget, from simple self contained helmet cams, to high quality fully integrated and analogue helmet camera kits, as well as a wide range of helmet camera accessories.
Go here for their Canadian site for a look at what they offer and if you’re wavering regarding is one of these things what you need, these 2 clips could make up your mind. Or go here for their Australian showcase.
In fact a Launch product is used by the Teton Gravity team and used to shoot this video and we’ve added some spiel below on the Durrance Route, truly one of the US’s true classic 50 climbs.
The Durrance Route is a route on Devils Tower in Wyoming and was first pioneered by Jack Durrance and Harrison Butterworth in 1938.
Then it was the second free ascent of Devils Tower and done only a year after the first ascent led by Fritz Weissner found what’s called The Wessiner Route which is not far to the right. It’s justifiably included in the book The Fifty Classic Climbs of North America, gets a ton of ascents each year and is in fact a lot more popular that the Weissner route.
And yes, Devils Tower is the Close Encounter movie backdrop, a point that has probably been done to death a million times over …..
“Any aliens up there at the top of pitch 3?”
“No but there’s a clown tied to the end of this rope”.