Vertical Limit

I don’t know if any of you have ever seen the movie Vertical Limit. A few months ago after a day of first-aid training a bunch of us Beyond Guides watched the movie again. It was hilarious. A lot of the stunts they pull are so outrageously unrealistic that we all burst out laughing at some of the most intense moments of the film. We felt kind of bad for our instructor who hasn’t spent a lot of time in the mountains and who had never seen the film before. Apparently a lot of our campers have seen the film. It is not uncommon for a group of high school boys to start off snow school by throwing themselves onto the snow clinging to their ice axe screaming for their buddy to help them up. We take snow school pretty seriously so this behavior can get a little frustrating. One guide had a particularly infamous outburst in response to this, shouting, “You will not fall, you will not trip, if you do fall, this is how you will arrest. I don’t want to see any of that bush-league Vertical Limit crap.” I don’t know if all of this means you should watch the movie, but I’m pretty sure it means you should book a Beyond trip. Our mountain adventures are not as intense or ridiculously dangerous as the shenanigans in Vertical Limit, but you do get to use an ice axe. We’ve already started booking for 2012 so give us a call (206.525.0791) or check out our website to reserve your own mountain experience- wicked explosions not included.