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Interview with Haider Ali
Haider Ali is from Gilgit, Pakistan. He is a guide who organises and leads climbing trips in Rakaposhi and Diran mountains, he also owns a trekking equipment shop. He started climbing because he grew up surrounded by mountains his whole life and started climbing at a young age. He then turned his hobby into his job. Mountaineering is important to Haider because it is his main source of income. Also, he enjoys it because it gives him peace and allows him to meet incredible people from all around the world. When climbing, the biggest challenge he faces is the weather. Sometimes when it snows or rains, it gives him and his clients a very hard time. His goal in regards to mountaineering is to showcase the beauty of the mountains in Gilgit and to let people enjoy the sport and appreciate it. He always has food, lots of water and a shelter in his backpack when climbing. The typical food he eats on a mountain is noodles and he drinks lots of water. His journey usually takes 6 hours to c...
film of hill climbing_by way of trial
I was filming the video on the last day of the experiment. I tried to shoot from various angles and summarized it as a video memo. If we were to make a documentary-like film, we would need to structure and narrate the content. On the final day, I found the garbage picking that Gal started to be very interesting. We knew the trash at our feet, but on the final day, she finally took action. I think it felt like an act of love for mountains (here hills). Through the hill-climbing, we may have felt the love for the hill itself.
added elements in climbing the hill
We added some elements in our experiment of climbing the hill. Wearing mask I started to wear a mask to simulate high altitude and low oxygen environment. Listening to music We tried to listen to dramatic music. How does it influence us? I repeated the same song "He's a Pirate", the soundtrack of the Pirates of the Caribbean. https://youtu.be/yRh-dzrI4Z4 it was good at the beginning but boring at the end. Also, this song made me think of the ocean, even though we were simulating the mountains. So I tried to make these videos. 2nd video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i83lYAVP7Qo I think the dramatic music has certainly driven my walking. It feels like I'm the main character of a movie. What if I talk about the episode and epilogue? Not speak I sometimes tried to walking without talking with others because Kensuke who I interviewed before said that climbing can focus on thinking of ourselves. When I was doing the simple task of walking, I often talked to myself. ...
modified high heels backward
modified high heels backward I thought that how can I simulate mountaineering on the flat road so that I made modified high heels backward using cardboard and tapes. I wore these shoes and walked on the road for one and a half hours which about as long as going up and down the hill in the group experiment. - walking in these shoes on the flat road was easier than climbing the hill with normal boots. - After an hour and a half, my calves get tired. It's a different feeling of fatigue than when walking up and down the hill. - Climbing a slope causes a whole body to get tired and shortness of breath early. On the other hand, walking with these shoes mainly hurts only the legs.
Footage taken while climbing Telegraph Hill
25.11.2020 Reaching the summit of Mont Blanc reaching the summit was very exciting because we worked hard to get to it and it made us feel accomplished. 27.11.2020 Eating oreos during our break, as recommended by one of the mountaineers we interviewed. The Oreo gave us a lot of energy and made us motivated to complete our descent. Picking up trash along the way: A big issue in the mountaineering world is that many leave trash behind and there is no one to pick it up. We wanted to do the opposite in order to try and implement a change that we would like to see in mountaineering. This activity felt empowering and it was nice knowing that we contributed to the park in a positive way and that it was cleaner when we left than when we arrived.
a 2 minute experimental video
I went to the Telegraph Hill with Sayuri and recorded some short videos on 18th November. The initial idea of the recording is to collect some random scenes for expressing feelings during a mountaineering simulation. some words I wrote down before recording: When we arrived at the Telegraph Hill, the weather is not good, the sky is grey and the wind is heavy. Before I climbed up the hill, I try to recall my twice mountain climbing experiences in China when I was in middle school. I remembered the most impressive thing during the mountain climbing is the sky and plants and the changing scenery. The changing of visual field is a really wonderful thing, it brings feelings of freedom. I used a retro video recorder app on my phone to record the videos and did some experiments by changing the camera type, filters and camera lens. This is a filter called 'Flash C', the cool colour is in relation to the cold weather. This interesting camera lens is called fisheye, it has the effect of ...
For our workshop, to record sound and explore an area, I decided to get an idea of the sounds of Telegraph Hill, since I was not one of the members of the group doing the walk up Mont Blanc. I thought this would give me an interesting insight into their experience, creating another link between our individual spheres of experimentation and discovery.
Interview with Kensuke
18th. Nov. Zoom > Please introduce yourself. I’m Kensuke Suzuki, 28years old. I’m from Tokyo, Japan, and working at an advertising company called Dentsu. > Please tell me about your mountaineering. I have climbed Mt. Fuji only once as training for new employees of the company. It is a traditional event where there are nearly 300 Rookies and all of them climb Mt. Fuji. And it is a competition to decide the ranking of the person who can reach the summit earliest. When I reached the summit, a senior employee was waiting and he gave me a paper with my ranking written on it. This is a famous event that all clients and bosses know, and everyone is looking forward to it, except for the climbers themselves. In my case, I wrote hundreds of postcards to the business partners before the climbing and posted them to the post on the summit so that they could be delivered at a later date. I wrote "I have climbed Mt. Fuji!", and they saw it and praised me for doing my best. Also, the ...
Interview with Roy Patael-Yohai
Age: 36 From Israel Amateur mountaineer Climbed Annapurna base camp in Nepal – 4-day trek, Mountains in the Israeli desert – 2-day trek, a mountain in Kamikochi, Japan (amongst others). Q: What do you like most about mountaineering? A: The feeling of freedom, the fact that a mountain is always there. I am more focused on myself when I’m climbing a mountain, it’s relaxing. Q: Would you say your favorite part about climbing is being in the moment? A: I would say so. It’s also being connected to my basic needs (when I’m hungry, when I need to sleep etc.) Q: What do you feel when you reach the summit? A: I don’t like it more than the way itself. The first few times I climbed a mountain I was disappointed when I reached the summit. I thought I was supposed to feel things that I didn’t feel. After the first few times I learned to treat it as just another mark along the way. Q: Why did you decide to propose to y...
Mont Blanc Simulation
Telegraph Hill Walks Day 1: We walked up and down 12 times on our first day. To make it feel like we were climbing up with heavy weights, we filled our backpacks with water bottles and other weights. It felt exciting to start walking up, however we were all pretty tired in the end and happy to go home. Day 2: The second day we started in the morning. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. We were a little sore from the day before, but just like mountaineers, we powered through. Like the first day, we climbed up and down twelve times. Now we only had 120 more times to go. Day 3: Day number 3 of walking started at 11 am. Personally I (Anna) had woken up just 15 minutes before we were going to start walking towards Telegraph hill to make it more like mountaineers having to quickly eat their breakfast and directly leaving camp to continue their climb. The third day was easier for us, and we even decided to walk longer than the two...