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Kinder Scout memories

By gstain / August 21, 2023
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Freda with my twin brother John on Fairbrook Naze, Kinder North, Dec 2001. This is one of my favourite routes up Kinder, straight up the Naze (Nose), with some easy scrambling near the top. It was in Alpine conditions on this day.
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Ascending Fairbrook Naze, 2001. Freda and John
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Crossing Kinder Scout from the north side to Kinder Downfall in Dec 2001. Gordon, left; John, right. Photo: Freda Raphael.

 

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March 2003. Gordon lining up a shot on Fairbrook Naze for a TV promotion for a BBC series, ‘Wild Britain’, that unfortunately never materialised. We had both Rebecca Stephens and Brian Blessed interested as potential presenters (and shot test scenes with them). Here Gordon is using a Russian Konvas 35mm film camera with a wide-angle Cinemascope format lens that belonged to cameraman Peter Ormrod.
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Gordon setting up a shot for the BBC promotion ‘Wild Britain’ on Kinder’s Fairbrook Naze in March 2003, helped by Freda (left) and old climbing friend Chris Thorp (right)
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Freda in the final exit
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  • Gordon’s CV
    • Gordon’s CV
    • Gordon’s main film credits
    • Film school Beethoven biopic
      • ‘Out of the Labyrinth’ – introduction
      • Production credits etc.
      • Making ‘Out of the Labyrinth’
      • Complete movie, clips, & stills
    • Interviews
    • Awards
    • Albums
  • Books etc
    • ‘GEORGE’ project
    • FIVA: An Adventure That Went Wrong
      • Banff Mountain & Wilderness Literature Award 2012
      • Fiva: rave reviews and online accolades
      • Fiva 1969 and 40 + 44 years on photo albums
      • Return to Store Trolltind 2013
      • ‘Fiva’ website
    • THE PEAK: Past and Present
    • THE CUILLIN: Great Mountain Ridge of Skye
    • LAKELAND: Landscape of Imagination
    • EYES TO THE HILLS: The Mountain Landscape of Britain
    • Interviews
    • Articles
    • Downloadable texts
      • Lectures
      • Reviews
      • Books
      • University dissertation
      • Sample undergrad essay
  • Shining music
    • The Shining music – Introductory note
    • Accolades
    • The Shining 35th anniversary, May 25, 2015
  • Climbing
    • Climbing pix
    • Climbing logbook 1966-98
    • 1967-68 climbing logbook
    • “An Ascent of Bispen”
    • Summiting Store Trolltind 44 years after Fiva epic
    • Complete ‘Fiva’ galleries 1969, 2009 & 2013
  • Stainforths
    • Family history
    • Family tree from C19th onwards
    • Peter Stainforth: paintings & drawings
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