Video Hilarity: 'Parking Garage: Beyond The Limit'
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Adventure films — especially the glossed-over, Discovery Channel kind — are so ripe for lampooning, it’s too bad we don’t see more spoofs of them. Then again, I doubt most of them would be as funny as Mark Odlum’s Parking Garage: Beyond The Limit. The short documentary chronicles Odlum’s harrowing attempt to climb the highest parking garage in town, which tops out at a dizzying 76 feet. While en route, he encounters high winds, carbon monoxide, and — oh hell, let’s just go to the tape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNXwMeI2iTk
“Morning. Day 41 at Camp 4, the highest and most inhospitable camp in the garage.”
Classic.
— Ted Alvarez