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climbsomething
Aug 21, 2005, 5:54 AM
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They found his remains in the snow halfway up Nanga Parbat, the ninth tallest mountain in the world. The clothes were still on him, including a wind jacket and shoes that identified the victim, apparently beyond doubt.
Read more here.
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curt
Aug 21, 2005, 6:57 AM
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In reply to: They found his remains in the snow halfway up Nanga Parbat, the ninth tallest mountain in the world. The clothes were still on him, including a wind jacket and shoes that identified the victim, apparently beyond doubt.
Read more here.
Is the jacket any good? And, what size are the shoes?
Curt
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anykineclimb
Aug 21, 2005, 7:19 AM
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WOW
what huge news.
Glad to see Reinhold was right all along.
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josephgdawson
Aug 21, 2005, 7:47 AM
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Didn't Reinhold throw Gunther down the hill to jumpstart his career?
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paulc
Aug 22, 2005, 5:15 AM
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In reply to: Didn't Reinhold throw Gunther down the hill to jumpstart his career?
Troll, and a bad one at that. Go away.
Didn't really make a difference to me before, but good to hear that this has put to rest rumors that have plagued (for bad and good) Reinhold's career.
RIP Gunther Messner, wherever he may come to rest.
Paul
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srwings
Aug 22, 2005, 10:07 AM
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I'd love to hear what Messner's detractors are saying now.
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tattooed_climber
Aug 22, 2005, 1:59 PM
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wow...there goes that article from Gripped about climbing controversies
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elvislegs
Aug 22, 2005, 2:48 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: They found his remains in the snow halfway up Nanga Parbat, the ninth tallest mountain in the world. The clothes were still on him, including a wind jacket and shoes that identified the victim, apparently beyond doubt.
Read more here.Is the jacket any good? And, what size are the shoes? Curt
classy.
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abalch
Aug 22, 2005, 3:07 PM
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Curt, you're an a$$hole.
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glyrocks
Aug 22, 2005, 3:48 PM
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In reply to: Curt, you're an a$$hole.
Trust me, that's not news to anyone- especially Curt.
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haas
Aug 22, 2005, 4:01 PM
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I'm glad for Reinhold, I'm sure that eases his mind quite a bit
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haas
Aug 22, 2005, 4:03 PM
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I'm glad for Reinhold, I'm sure that eases his mind quite a bit
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dingus
Aug 22, 2005, 4:25 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: Curt, you're an a$$hole. Trust me, that's not news to anyone- especially Curt.
In the grand old days of our sport, a hiker in Yosemite was screwing around near the gap across from the Lost Arrow Spire. He fell to his death in the notch between the spire and the rim.
In deference to that death, the Park Service closed the Lost Arrow Chimney to climbing.
Ivon Chouinard and Steve Roper were the first climbing party to do the chinmey after it was reopened to climbing. The body was still in the notch.
Can't remember which climber led the pitch to the notch. But of course they knew the body was still there and they'd have to climb over it.
So the leader (Roper?) gets to the body. The rope stops and the belayer just sits there for a while. Finally, impatient, he hollers up,
"Well???? What's it like???" The response was *supposed to go down* in mountaineering history (but apparently not),
"His Goddamned parka doesn't fit me!"
DMT
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curt
Aug 22, 2005, 5:35 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: In reply to: Curt, you're an a$$hole. Trust me, that's not news to anyone- especially Curt. In the grand old days of our sport, a hiker in Yosemite was screwing around near the gap across from the Lost Arrow Spire. He fell to his death in the notch between the spire and the rim. In deference to that death, the Park Service closed the Lost Arrow Chimney to climbing. Ivon Chouinard and Steve Roper were the first climbing party to do the chinmey after it was reopened to climbing. The body was still in the notch. Can't remember which climber led the pitch to the notch. But of course they knew the body was still there and they'd have to climb over it. So the leader (Roper?) gets to the body. The rope stops and the belayer just sits there for a while. Finally, impatient, he hollers up, "Well???? What's it like???" The response was *supposed to go down* in mountaineering history (but apparently not),
"His Goddamned parka doesn't fit me!" DMT
I guess you can't expect the grommets around here to know anything about climbing history.
Curt
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dingus
Aug 22, 2005, 5:38 PM
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In reply to: I guess you can't expect the grommets around here to know anything about climbing history. Curt
Yup, round here history goes something like this:
In the Beginning, there was curt. And curt was an asshole... or something like that.
The biggest 'origins' debate is which came first, the top rope or the gym?
DMT
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climbingnurse
Aug 22, 2005, 6:11 PM
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Some of us knew what Curt was making reference to and still think Curt's post was tasteless. A more in depth reading of Steve Roper's "Camp 4" will tell you that Roper regrets the comment. Some people gain wisdom with age (Roper) while others just become dirty old men.
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dingus
Aug 22, 2005, 6:37 PM
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In reply to: A more in depth reading of Steve Roper's "Camp 4" will tell you that Roper regrets the comment.
Regrets it does he? Well, he just want WAY DOWN in my book. I guess the things Harding said about him were true after all?
DMT
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curt
Aug 22, 2005, 9:53 PM
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In reply to: Some of us knew what Curt was making reference to and still think Curt's post was tasteless. A more in depth reading of Steve Roper's "Camp 4" will tell you that Roper regrets the comment. Some people gain wisdom with age (Roper) while others just become dirty old men.
You better change your attitude kid, or you'll never attain the enviable status of dirty old man. :wink:
Curt
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dklco
Aug 29, 2005, 8:25 PM
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i am by no means an expert on this but i did read reinhold messners book
if i remeber right he claimed that he lost his brother on a glacier closer to the bottom of the mountain.
is that right?
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silvermine
Sep 3, 2005, 1:27 PM
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it was for sure the tope rope then the gym, yeh, the gym was like nineteen eighties yuppie bottled climbing, but hey keeps you fit in the off season
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anykineclimb
Sep 3, 2005, 2:38 PM
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In reply to: but hey keeps you fit in the off season
What is this "off season" nonsense you speak of?
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silvermine
Sep 3, 2005, 2:40 PM
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well it rains in winter so you can't climb out doors
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tradbum
Sep 4, 2005, 7:34 PM
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In reply to: well it rains in winter so you can't climb out doors
And nothing beats Joshua Tree in a downpour! (Taquitz...not quite so fun...)
And I'm glad that there's some closure for RM. Screw what the "pundits" say, he lost the brother.
Smitty
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Sep 30, 2005, 9:09 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: A more in depth reading of Steve Roper's "Camp 4" will tell you that Roper regrets the comment. Regrets it does he? Well, he just want WAY DOWN in my book. I guess the things Harding said about him were true after all? DMT |
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