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paddyrock
Aug 6, 2008, 10:03 PM
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Found this out last night but seemingly Friedrich Nietzsche was an avid mountaineer...
Also the late pope John paul the ii...
Anyone else?/??
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paddyrock
Aug 6, 2008, 10:04 PM
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oh and jesus i guess as well...
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chossmonkey
Aug 6, 2008, 10:23 PM
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I think David Lee Roth
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the_climber
Aug 6, 2008, 10:41 PM
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Clint Eastwood did a bunch. According to Chic Scott he did a good majority of his own climbing in the Eiger Sanction and continued with it for a while after that. Don't know for how long though.
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the_climber
Aug 6, 2008, 10:42 PM
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paddyrock wrote: oh and jesus i guess as well...
Sorry Mount of Olives doesn't count.
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paddyrock
Aug 6, 2008, 11:00 PM
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was jesus not in Red rocks for 40 days or something like that...
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the_climber
Aug 6, 2008, 11:06 PM
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wouldn't that make him a pot smoking hippy?
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patmay81
Aug 6, 2008, 11:23 PM
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what about Moses?
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quiteatingmysteak
Aug 6, 2008, 11:31 PM
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paddyrock wrote: Found this out last night but seemingly Friedrich Nietzsche was an avid mountaineer... Also the late pope John paul the ii... Anyone else?/??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwbJ4Mrr7w0
and the story of the album cover, as told by none other than Werner Braun (courtesy of Supertopo...)
A trip down the memory lane ……for anyone who even cares ………
David Lee Roth hired Ron Kauk and me to help Galen Rowell do this album cover. His production people got him a horse to ride to half dome along with all of the other equipment for this shoot. David decided he wanted to walk and not ride his horse so I asked if I could ride it. “Sure go ahead” he says, “I want to walk”. Cool, I hop on and away we go.
Now Kauk was lagging behind somewhere else during this time sorting out his last minute details telling me earlier he’ll catch up to us. He catches up to the crew and asks where I am? They tell him I’m riding David’s horse. He jogs up the mist trail and catches up to me at the top of Nevada Falls. Ron tells me I’m not riding that thing by myself and he then hops on too. Shit! Two of us on that thing now. We approach towards the saddle the horse became more and more tired, somehow it made it. We make camp at the saddle for tomorrows shoot.
The next day we all troop up to the top for the cover shot shoot.
Galen is running around with his camera trying to figure out the best location. He spots his ace in the hole and tells Ron and me to set up David at the spot you see on that cover. Now we didn’t even have a bolt kit with us, and Galen wants David out in some no mans land with very little features for anything that’ll hold worth sh-it. I go WTF Galen there’s nothing out there and he tells us to do the best we can. Ok man, whatever.
Kauk goes down and places a bunch of A4 sh-it. The final piton where David is supposed to hang off is this pin Kuak puts in (a long med. Lost arrow) sticking more than ľ of the way out. Ron tells me he hopes it holds David’s ass. Ha ha ha ha
Ron tells me to go to David’s position and set him up when he gets there. I’m on a separate rope and David rappels down to the last pin Ron placed. He takes one look at that thing and says “fu-ck! I’m not hanging off that thing, It’ll pull out and I’ll die”. He is now visibly shaking real bad and scared shitless.
I tell David that I’m the rigger and that he has to have faith in the rigger and the rigger will never lie to you. Now David has probably heard every bullshit line but then he’s never really aid climbed. I tell him that piton is one foot long! And that 7” of that sucker he’s looking at is buried in that horizontal crack to his total disbelief. Ron hears the whole dialog and starts to roll his eyes and hint to me keep it going all while Galen is starting to get impatient with our scared mans delay. Finally after more bullshit lines David buys them and gently as hell gets on that thing shaking like sh-it until Galen shoots the camera.
The shoot is on! David does his Hollywood mode. smiles and all in between bouts of shakes and deep breaths. Galen shoots off his 20 or so rolls in record time and David gets his rope back from above and jugs out. I clean the piton he was on with one jerk of my hand. Kauks eyes roll again and we’re out of there after cleaning the rest of that sh-ity mess.
And David Lee Roth becomes the “Skyscraper”
He gave me and Ron a gold plated carabinier engraved "Diamond Dave" on it, after the shoot. Sorry Ammon, ha ha ha ha
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roddack
Aug 7, 2008, 1:44 AM
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Billy Squier Has been known to clip gear.
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qwert
Aug 7, 2008, 2:58 PM
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 the music playing in this vid is jsut so over the top, it almost hurts.
still funny though.
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irregularpanda
Aug 7, 2008, 3:07 PM
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the_climber wrote: Clint Eastwood did a bunch. According to Chic Scott he did a good majority of his own climbing in the Eiger Sanction and continued with it for a while after that. Don't know for how long though.
The doctor don't need no stinkin harness
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irregularpanda
Aug 7, 2008, 3:11 PM
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the_climber wrote: wouldn't that make him a pot smoking hippy?
Yes. It's jesus we're talking about.
I'm glad nobody has mentioned Tom Cruise yet.
Clint Eastwood.
Aliester Crowley "The great beast 666" was an avid mountaineer and rock climber, and he could be considered a visionary. For example, he climbed the first 5.9 in england, which wasn't repeated for many years. He also had a knack for spotting lines in an alpine setting: he attempted K2 with a large group, and he picked the line that was safest to go up, which was also not to be climbed for many years.
He was also a dickhead.
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dumbsocrates
Aug 7, 2008, 3:21 PM
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Tom Cruise solos in MI2, is it in Utah?  oh... and, of course, Angelina Jolie (Mr. & Mrs. Smith).
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mcolombo
Aug 7, 2008, 3:30 PM
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Aleister Crowley
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Carnage
Aug 7, 2008, 3:34 PM
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theres this one semi famous guy who climbs pretty hard, i think his name was chris sharma. i dont think most ppl have heard of him though...
on a serious note, kevin rose (tech tv host and co-founder of digg.com) climbed for a while, i dunno if he still does. only heard about him doing indoor stuff up to the 10s though.
edit: just found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yFktTWwDzk
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the_climber
Aug 7, 2008, 3:47 PM
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Jessi Combs from Xtreme4x4 apparently climbs.
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dingus
Aug 7, 2008, 3:49 PM
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Tom Brokhaw.
DMT
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fitzontherocks
Aug 7, 2008, 4:00 PM
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Ozzy's kid.
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chossmonkey
Aug 7, 2008, 4:02 PM
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There was a news anchor back in MN that climbed. I really wouldn't call him famous though.
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Aug 7, 2008, 4:36 PM
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dumbsocrates wrote: Tom Cruise solos in MI2, is it in Utah?
i don't remember where it was filmed but it was him actually climbing, with a safety wire of course
fitzontherocks wrote: Ozzy's kid.
I saw clip of this years ago on acess hollywood or somethign like that, not a high level climber but seemed to be really into the challenge and fittness aspect. I heard he also hired some guides to drag him up elcap.
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Chappy76
Aug 7, 2008, 6:01 PM
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Matthew McConauhey
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angry
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Me
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