John Dunne – BIG ISSUE

John Dunne ist wohl der streitbarsten und gleichzeitig inspirierendsten Kletterer der 90er von der englischen Insel. Sid Perou, Kletterfilmer, war damals ziemlich bekannt in der Szene und konnte John bei The Big Issue (E9/6c) und dem nordirirschen Testpiece Divided Years (E9/6c) begleiten.

„I think when I realised that I am a controversial character and there’s a lot of controversy surrounding me I thought well – this is not going to go away, I could do the hardest, most difficult wall in the Peak District with everybody watching but there will still be doubt because at the end of the day they don’t want to believe what they see. They can’t accept John Dunne, how he looks, who he is – brash and abrasive, they can’t accept that and I don’t think they ever will.“ – John Dunne

Sid wrote in the description for the video:

„Spent several months working on this film for John Dunne which I suspect was intended to prolong his period as a professional climber. I quite enjoyed making it but in the end, never got paid more than my expenses.“