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Who do you most admire,envy, and are most influenced by? It says a lot about your interests and philosophy on climbing.

 

Mine in the past.

Gaston Rebuffat

Jim Whittaker

Peter Croft

Messner

Alan Watts

 

Present:

Steve House

Colin Haley

Ben Gilmore

Amazing what is being done in the alpine arena lately!

 

 

 

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Dwayner 'n pope.

 

followed by:

 

Gaston Rebuffat- poet of the mountain spirit and role-model guide.

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Walter Bonatti - pushing the limits.

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Sir Edmund Hillary - a genuine explorer and humanitarian.

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Rheinhold Messner - going where no man had gone before.

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(By the way, his concept of "murdering the impossible" includes his attitude about bolting.)

 

BIG LOU - Rainier Royalty

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Sorry, ain't got no sport-clippin', rap-boltin', flavors of the week on my list.

 

 

 

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Royal Robbins, 1st Ascent of NW face of Half Dome, cover of National Geographic in 1964. That was when I first knew I was going to be a rock climber.

Alex Lowe, Missoula in the 70's and 80's. Alex put up a lot of hard routes in the Bitterroot and had an infectous spirit of fun and adventure.

Pete Schoening, for the most incredible save and for emmulating the character of the "old school".

Colin Haley, for climbing massive routes and selling me his Cobras really cheap. He also seems to "emmulate the character of the "old school"".

 

 

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no lionel terray yet?

 

"Philistines may think that we were madmen indeed to go through such suffering and danger to arrive at this lonely spot. What did you hope to find there, they may ask. Glory? Nobody cares about young fools who waste their best years in meaningless combats far from the eyes of the world. Fortune? Our clothes were in rags and next day we would go back down to a life of slaving for the barest essentials. What we sought was the unbounded and essential joy that boils in the heart and penetrates every fibre of our being when, after long hours skirting the borders of death, we can again hug life to us with all our strength. Nietzsche defined it thus: `The secret of knowing the most fertile experiences and the greatest joys in life is to live dangerously.'"

 

 

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My "A-List" is long and distinguished. I'll probably be adding to this as time goes on...

 

Round One, in no particular order:

 

Doug Scott

Chris Bonnington

Joe Tasker

Maurice Herzog

Heinrich Harrer

Reinhold Messner

Mugs Stump

Edmund Hillary

Alex Lowe

Jeff Lowe

Jim Bridwell

Warren Harding

Carlos Buhler

Walter Bonatti

John Roskelly

Marty Hoey

Lynn Hill

Alison Hargreaves

Wanda Rutkiewicz

Royal Robbins

Yvon Chouinard

Fred Beckey

Layton Kor

and lastly (for now), Frank Gibson

 

Round Two (credits to wfinley)

Paul Petzoldt

Jack Durrance

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My "A-List" is long and distinguished. I'll probably be adding to this as time goes on...

...

Fred Beckey

...

 

That took longer then I thought...

 

You must have missed this part...

Round One, in no particular order:

 

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My "A-List" is long and distinguished. I'll probably be adding to this as time goes on...

...

Fred Beckey

...

 

That took longer then I thought...

 

You must have missed this part...

Round One, in no particular order:

I was talking about the whole thread as you were the first to list Fred... :brew:

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My "A-List" is long and distinguished. I'll probably be adding to this as time goes on...

...

Fred Beckey

...

 

That took longer then I thought...

 

You must have missed this part...

Round One, in no particular order:

I was talking about the whole thread as you were the first to list Fred... :brew:

Ah! It occurred to me after I replied that that was how you intended the comment. But by then, I had already logged off and gone to munch out. Never got back to editing it. My bad.

Cheers!

:brew:

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