Partner News: Commit - Theoretical Objective

The second part of the Commit web series from Arc'teryx is about things you could theoretically do. The protagonist this time is alpinist and climber Jason Kruk. In the film, he and a colleague are seen scrambling along an unpleasant-looking ridge on the way to a summit that is not really passable. The video ends with them turning around. The accompanying Arc'teryx blog post reveals that it was about a film project in which a certain line was to be skied. This turned out to be unrideable. After Kruk and his colleague turned around, as can be seen in the video, Kruk was apparently dropped off at the ridge again by helicopter the next day and made the descent with the help of a speedriding chute. However, this cannot be seen in the video. Side note: Aside from his impressive mountaineering achievements, Jason Kruk gained fame with a video in which he gets his knee stuck in a crack during a climbing film project. While someone tries to assist him, he wets his pants. He made the headlines again when he and Hayden Kennedy removed the hooks from the Compressor Route on Cerro Torre. In contrast, the Arc'teryx video is rather unspectacular, but quite nice to watch. Besides, it is always welcome when films of this kind show that sometimes things don't work out.