Alpine Climbing in Chamonix - filmed with ContourHD helmet cam

PointofViewCameras.com. Vholdr ContourHD helmet cam test video taken during alpine climbing in the Aiguille du midi area in Chamonix, France.

Learn more about VholdR ContourHD cameras at http://PointofViewCameras.com/VholdR

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• PointofViewCameras.com
• alpine
• climbing
• mountaineering
• chamonix
• france
• Aiguille du midi
• vholdr
• contourhd
• contour
• hd
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[thundertongue]

excellent footage,

we cannot upload on youtube at this quality though......

[PointOfViewCameras]

Thank You. Do you mean your ContourHD footage?

I'm in the middle of writing a tutorial on video compression and export for sharing on video sites.

Keep an eye on our blog @ pointofviewcameras website. I will post it there in the next day or two

Mike

[thundertongue]

no, no, no sorry I have the POV and I can't have this quality on my uploads.

have a look in my page and you'll see what I mean by poor quality..

thanks anyway !!!

[PointOfViewCameras]

Ahhh...I see. The footage will never look as good since the ContourHD resolution is 1280x720 and the POV1.5 is 720x480 (SD). Make sure you export at best possible quality before you upload.

Take a look at some of the VIO video in our channels to compare.

[thundertongue]

looking forward to it ....

thanks Mike

[PointOfViewCameras]

No problem!

[mmaatu]

CONTOUR IS SHIT

[para1477]

@infantesergio Just what I was thinking! lots of walking, scrambling, but no balls deep climbing

[lovinlife4ever]

Nice vid!

[infantesergio]

where is the alpine climbing?

[whatsiteverwas]

@JedNZ I was referring to the Yosemite Decimal System. Class 1 is walking, Class 5 is vertical climbing. 5.16 is theoretically the hardest climb. If I'm not mistaken, summitting can often involve class 3–5 climbing by the YDS. Not always. Were you to ascend the same face that the cable car does, you would be into Class 3 or 4 for sure.

[JedNZ]

@whatsiteverwas Alpine climbing is more of a fast and light weight style of climbing where you take the bare essentials so that you can ascend to the summit and down faster as opposed to expedition styles. It doesn't really mean take a ride to the summit lol, i have a hunch this video is filmed while on a course? would make much more sense. Are you thinking of M1-3 graded climbing?

[whatsiteverwas]

@JedNZ 0:37 What's class 3–5? I don't understand, isn't this how all alpinists do it?

[JedNZ]

@whatsiteverwas lol, at first i was going to say it looks like a lovely walk in the park, thing is they didn't even do that to the summit. Winter mountaineering for couch potatoes.

[whatsiteverwas]

does it count as alpine climbing if you ride a cable car to the summit?

[joikakake123]

Whole movie filmed with Contour ? From start to end?