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What Alpinism Means to Me

A Slide Show/Confessional with Patagonia Alpine Ambassador Barry Blanchard

 

Friday, October 1, 7 p.m.

Patagonia, 2100 First Ave., Seattle

 

Join Barry Blanchard, one of Canada's foremost alpinists and a Patagonia alpine ambassador, as he tells why he's dedicated his entire adult life to finding the perfect new route up the perfect mountain. He'll show slides from climbing trips to the Canadian Rockies, Mt. Blanc, Nuptse, Everest, K2 and others to illustrate the ways mountains engage we humans and demonstrate how climbing soothes the soul.

 

This event is free. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, phone Patagonia at 206-622-9700.

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here's barry in our regulator jacket...oh and here he is lounging in a das parka...come celebrate the romantic simplicity of alpinism . . . and buy our $70 jeans while you are there!

 

It would be fun being a patagonia catalog writer. Jeans. Uses: Traipsing through the backroads of Mongolia, working on the vw bus, mending barbed wire fences...

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Blanchard gave an excellent slide show. Very engaging speaker, funny as hell, and my god has he climbed some unbelievable lines in the Rockies, Alps, and Himalayas. Great photographer as well. In the end he gave a moving tribute to his buddies Dave Cheesemond and Alex Lowe.

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Agreed, great show! Some priceless stories, including that of his partner who'd brush the snow off with his mitt, take his hand out, lick his fingers, grab the hold and let things freeze, and rip his hand off the hold later...

 

Then there was Vaseline Research...

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