Comments on: Shared Summits Expedition on K2 airs this weekend

By: climbing narc

climbing narc — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:42:08 +0000

Yes, it was bumped by golf it seems. The only reason it recorded was because I had a pre-existing schedule recording the show from when there were rock climbing segments on.

Also, the K2 portion only appears to be around 30-40 minutes of the episode and the rest is other adventure sport footage. I’m only a short way into the K2 part but they have spent most of the time thus far bashing people that climb Everest for being soft.

By: Tom Markiewicz

Tom Markiewicz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:27:09 +0000

Yeah, I completely missed it as well. At least you found part of it on TV, I checked and didn’t see it at all. I was assuming user error on my part until I read your comment. It looks like they botched this up.

By: climbingnarc

climbingnarc — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:09:24 +0000

unforunately this didn’t air until 1am Monday morning in my area. and it was late due to football which caused my DVR to miss 20 minutes of the show…

By: climbingnarc

climbingnarc — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:51:00 +0000

The visuals are pretty cool. The footage of people actually moving towards the summit gives you a really good sense of the sort of terrain they are moving over that is hard to capture in still images. Pretty incredible to see live action footage from above 8000 meters.

Of course the narration overhypes everything and they use the phrase “death zone” about 100 times per episode but you learn to block it out.

By: Tom Markiewicz

Tom Markiewicz — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:43:21 +0000

No, I heard about it, but forgot to set the DVR. Has it been good?

By: climbingnarc

climbingnarc — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:52:14 +0000

Have you been watching “Everest: Beyond the Limit” on discovery at all??