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chipmunk
Sep 11, 2006, 7:02 AM
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Its just a question I keep wondering about...
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chipmunk
Sep 11, 2006, 7:05 AM
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Anybody :?:
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chipmunk
Sep 11, 2006, 7:08 AM
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In reply to: I'm just wondering how far back does rockclimbing go recreationally speaking. Scientifically speaking, if humans evolved from monkeys, did our great, great, great ancestors ever climb? Some say that monkeys can't even climb rock, only trees. I'm pretty sure cavemen needed to climb rock for reasons such as hunting or escaping from wild beasts. Anyways, just something to think about. |
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majid_sabet
Sep 11, 2006, 7:09 AM
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If you think Americans were first, you got it WRONG
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shock
Sep 11, 2006, 11:03 AM
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I've read whole books on the subject and still dont know. (But it wasnt americans)
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shock
Sep 11, 2006, 11:03 AM
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I've read whole books on the subject and still dont know.
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shanz
Sep 11, 2006, 11:55 AM
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um neanderthals they had great ape index
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thespider
Sep 11, 2006, 12:27 PM
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John Gill has a nice website on the origins of bouldering. Chances are that all rock climbing extended from bouldering in Great Britain in the 1880s and Oscar Eckenstein. Good luck finding the first person who climbed up a rock face! Maybe moses and Mt. cyanid (Spelling?)?
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ter_bee
Sep 11, 2006, 12:35 PM
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sinai? i'm not sure what mountain moses climbed, but cyanid(e) wasn't it.
op: brave question. i have no idea, and i suspect nobody knows, :(. but it would be good to know!
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dingus
Sep 11, 2006, 12:39 PM
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I remember reading a Verm story about a baboon that climbed its way into a pickle, had to do a desperate dyno to get out and proceeded to furiously masterbate upon reaching firm ground again.
Maybe your answer is in there somewhere.
DMT
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bill413
Sep 11, 2006, 12:49 PM
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It was Ung - third cave on the left, after the tar pits. He'd accidentally released his favorite atlatl, and had to climb up some rocks to retrieve it.
It was on a Tuesday.
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stone_d_cologne
Sep 11, 2006, 12:50 PM
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you mean: when did rockclimbing for purpose parted from rc for fun?
in africa, they climbed mountains to get to birds nests or to bury their dead (mali)
other mountains were climbed for 'scientific' reasons or to collect crystals
I guess the fun part started around 1900 and after the industrial revolution that permitted people to have free time to spend.
in africa they still climb to bury the dead...
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ter_bee
Sep 11, 2006, 12:50 PM
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In reply to: I remember reading a Verm story about a baboon that climbed its way into a pickle, had to do a desperate dyno to get out and proceeded to furiously masterbate upon reaching firm ground again. Maybe your answer is in there somewhere. DMT
lovely, dingus.
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keinangst
Sep 11, 2006, 1:01 PM
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I'm still laughing at Mt. Cyanide :D
"Los Angeles' Cedars-Cyanide Medical Center troubled by incredibly high patient death rates"
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thespider
Sep 11, 2006, 1:08 PM
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Yeah, but you all knew what I meant!
In reply to: I'm still laughing at Mt. Cyanide :D "Los Angeles' Cedars-Cyanide Medical Center troubled by incredibly high patient death rates" |
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fixednut
Sep 11, 2006, 2:00 PM
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totally
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cintune
Sep 11, 2006, 3:24 PM
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Check out the Pilgrimage video to see how monkeys can climb rock.
And yeah, it was the mid-19th century when bored Englishmen started going to the Alps to climb for fun.
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sungam
Sep 11, 2006, 4:20 PM
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I believe the first rock climbing as apposed to rock scrambling, was on St Kilda, in the outer hebridis, where locals would climb the famous gniess cliffs to steal birds eggs. due to this, the birds would nest higher, and on harder ground, making the locals climb some pretty serious stuff to steal the eggs. 5.4 I think.
-Magnus
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joergb
Sep 11, 2006, 10:04 PM
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In reply to: I'm just wondering how far back does rockclimbing go recreationally speaking.
In Elbsandstein, which is considered one of the most traditional german climbing areas, start of climbing as sport is considered 6.3.1864, when a group from a local gym climbed the Falkenstein. But it became really popular as sport around 1900.
Some people cite even an earlier incident, when 19.3.1848 the chimney sweep Sebastian Abratzky climbed the rock on castle Koenigstein. But the sports motivation of this is disputed; some say it was for economical reasons to save the entrance fee.
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ter_bee
Sep 12, 2006, 4:22 AM
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In reply to: Yeah, but you all knew what I meant! In reply to: I'm still laughing at Mt. Cyanide :D "Los Angeles' Cedars-Cyanide Medical Center troubled by incredibly high patient death rates"
what you didn't mean was much funnier.
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Sep 12, 2006, 10:59 PM
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As to "where", it is generally thought that the sport of rock climbing began during the last quarter of the 19th century in at least two areas: Elbsandsteingebirge near Dresden and in the Lake District of England. As to "who", there's no acceptable answer. 8^)
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