Giovanni does Kylie Minogue
This is what happens when you let your husband go on a climbing holiday with his friends! Meet Giovanni - the hedgehog bridge builder extra-ordinaire. The video was made by hubby - budding director/producer!
Of course I'm only jealous because my holiday snaps were so boring by comparison!!!
Their photos are truly stunning! And perhaps you can see why I didn't go with them, but instead got my kicks on horse back in sunny Andalucia!!!
Four intrepid climbers on Marmolada
Giovanni
Glacier - they climbed this too (nutters!)
More high uppy stuff!I stopped climbing a year or more ago. You can read why here!
P.S.
Rode today and did 2 foot uprights without falling off - hurrah!!!
Rode today and did 2 foot uprights without falling off - hurrah!!!
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What an excellent video! Giovanni is soooo limber! I'd be KNACKERED after I'd jumped around that much. Also, how SCARY does that climb look? I climbed to Poon Hill (Nepal) in 2 days and was exhausted and had a runny nose from the altitude and I just had to walk up a bunch of steps! Those ladder thingies your husband and friends used look really scary. That's full on climbing. I just went for a stroll in comparison!
WOW! That is incredible. (and I don't mean Giovanni's grove - although that too is fairly incredile!)...I want to go rock climbing too!!!
ctaylor - let's clear up a couple of misconceptions.
1. He was knackered.
2. He is sooo NOT limber.
3. The climb looked scary in the guide book so we did it blindfolded.
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My goodness - hubby dropping by! How funny is that!
ctaylor - it looks bloody terrifying! It is indeed full on climbering (pronounce the 'b' for the full effect). I climbed (easy not v. high stuff) for the first years of our relationship, and then took up riding instead before my hair turned completely white, or I fell of something!
pacha - you should give it a go! The lads were in the Dolomites in N. Italy. Lots of Via Ferrata stuff, so apparently quite safe (though you may want a head for heights!)
Hi Lisa. Excellent effort, he can teach Kylie a thing or two...
Pa I would call sitting on a horse fairly scary by the way!!
Loved the video - excellent.
BUT, some of the shots and some of the photos have left me feeling quite sick, and hyperventilating ... I don't think I'm strong enough to go and look at why you stopped climbing. I shall try to come back later when my balance comes back.
JJx
Giovanni seems like a great holiday companion:-)
Photos are (and I will now use a word I never use but appropriate here ..) awesome:-)
2ft fences! No falling offy. Yay:-)
kafrin - hello! Great to see you here! Climbing's much more scary than sitting on a horsie - but then you're a superb climber and I hang on by my finger nails in tears!
jj - good innit. I was very impressed - he did each day of the trip, and most of it is vertigo inducing. I'm with you all the way! The pic of my little effort is quite crap in comparison, I assure you!
lane - the pics were indeed awesome , and the views stunning. Shame I could never get up there to see them first hand. As for jumping, oh yes... totally hooked. I think I've found my raison d'etre in these equinie creatures. (Besides/as well as writing of course!)
Loved the video. How does anyone have that much energy and climb too?
The only way I could ever see views from that height would have to be in a photo. Magnificent views though I can fully understand why you went writing instead.
fabulous pictures and Giovanni is a hoot. I'm with you riding in Andalucia, the top of a horse is as high as I ever want to climb.. vertigo and a further excuse is only one ear drum, no balance!
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