olyclimber

7555 m

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-12-13/annapurna-iii-the-great-mountaineering-challenge-of-the-20th-century-is-finally-conquered.html?outputType=amp sounds brutal. 1.5 energy bars per day for six days. I probably could survive on Little Si on that.

Yep, that exactly what I'm talking about. Maybe its terrible for me to say it, but it's exactly that that inspires me most of all.

still for sale!

bump. its time....you or a buddy need some?

Cleary the Big Multi-National Appliance Conglomerate is waging psychops on us. After all, I hear everything is made in the same factory these days.

I try not to @genepires . but i was no where near the human being he was at that age. I think "hoped I died before I got old" as the song goes. But this isn't about me, I'm ok with who I am and was and I still do aspire to be a better person because it isn't over yet. This passage below from his blog @cheamclimber (Marc) that @Rad quoted in the thread from when he went missing struck me too as way more mature and brave of a vision for a young man. I admit at that age I cared way too much about what other people thought about me or what I was doing. That is the bravery, vision, and imagination that I admire. To step way from from all that. He was clearly unique. Perhaps that captures is the spirit of "alpinism" when it comes to the desire to leave the established path and find a new way up. And this is all apart form the audacity of his uncomprehendible climbing achievements. From LeClerc's blog on his Emperor Face ascent on Mt Robson: "It was now my fourth day alone in the mountains and my thoughts had reached a depth and clarity that I had never before experienced. The magic was real. I thought to myself that the essence of alpinism lies in true adventure. I was deeply content that I had not carried a watch with me to keep time, as the obsession with time and speed is in fact one of the greatest detractors from the alpine experience. I was happy that my entire experience had been onsight, on my first visit to the mountain, and that the route had been in completely virgin condition. One of the greatest challenges of mountaineering is in dealing with the natural obstacles the mountain provides. So often in modern alpinism, routes will be fearsomely difficult for the first party of the season, and then once the obstacles have been cleared, a track established or the ‘tunnels’ dug it becomes easy for those who follow. Climbing routes that have been cleared, with an established track,simply in order to attain the summit, or keeping time in order to set records is in fact reducing the adventure of alpinism more to that of a sport climb, and strips the route of its full challenge making it more of a ‘playing field’ of a team sports athlete or like a barbell at an indoor gym where a jock tries to lift his personal best. As a young climber it is undeniable that I have been manipulated by the media and popular culture and that some of my own climbs have been subconsciously shaped through what the world perceives to be important in terms of sport. Through time spent in the mountains, away from the crowds, away from the stopwatch and the grades and all the lists of records I’ve been slowly able to pick apart what is important to me and discard things that are not. Of course the journey of learning never ends but I’ve come to believe that the natural world is the greatest teacher of all, and that listening in silence to the universe around you is perhaps the most productive ways of learning. Perhaps it is not much of a surprise, but so often people are afraid of their own thoughts, resorting to drowning them out with constant noise and distraction. Is it a fear of leaning who we actually are that causes this? Perhaps so many of us are afraid to confront our own personalities that we go on living in a world of falseness, filling the void of true contentment by being actors striving to be perceived by the world around us as something that we ‘supposed to be’ rather than living as who we are."

you need to convert those first two pics from HEIC to jpg if you want them to show up here.

Oh! I know the one!

https://open.spotify.com/track/2dHP9EkRq46gBdMjbgcRLj?si=ce05251d941d4ac7

is it a banger?

Keep them coming @JasonG

Watched it for the first time too. What struck me most was just how Marc lived. He could have been anything, but the way he lived and his focus on what was important to him. Living in a stairwell, a tent, in a snow cave. Ignoring the pressures other put on him that didn't fit with the pure vision that he had, of what he was trying to obtain. All the while just just presenting a face of goofy kindness to anyone he interacted with. Thats what I admire most about him, and wish that I could better implement into my own life....and also what I wish for my son or anyone. The level and type of climbing he was doing is something foreign to me that I can't begin to understand, and I'm sure I never will. But I can understand and admire the example that he lived outside of that.

so is dougie fresh. nothing like the alpenglow! thanks for the TR, way to get after it! you need to get a chainsaw for your rig.

love it. some of my best trips were total "failures". beats sitting on the couch. interesting discussion around stoves, usually people are just talking about elevation...i guess white gas is better when its really cold. the majority of the times I was in a really cold situation that what we were using. not that i've been in a ton of cold situations, but we never had a problem with white gas.

Epic! Thank you for sharing your story!

Don't think I ever saw this one before from 1982. bonus shot of his junk in the killer van.

don't know if this helps....not winter obv, but is the SE...

Tell your brother we are sorry this happened. Moving to the main forum for more eyes....

way to beat the heat!

Great pictures! Beautiful...thank you.

Damn! But what was the price of this avalanche and rescue?

I suspect that it is related to something that Jon has to fix when he gets time! Sorry guys.