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rich sims
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 20, 2010 - 11:23pm PT
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It was about 1980 and Dennis Kemp RIP climbed Half Dome when he was 57.
I had been climbing with him and new he was going to do RNWF. I knew he could, still I was 23 and impressed.
He helped me realize climbing did not stop at 30.
57 it’s not that old now that I am closing in on it.
So who is the oldest to do a wall?
Who is the oldest to be doing walls (more than two a year?)
Who is the oldest to do NIAD?
Just curious.
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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Dec 20, 2010 - 11:28pm PT
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Charles Cole at 68 for a solo
Jerry the "old dad" Bloch was like 81 or so but jugged (?)
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Dec 20, 2010 - 11:29pm PT
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Tom Frost?
Fred Becky?
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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Dec 20, 2010 - 11:30pm PT
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Charles Cole at 68 for a solo
That is impressive.
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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Dec 20, 2010 - 11:35pm PT
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What about the oldest to do a big wall FA?
Cole on the solo = Badass
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Dec 20, 2010 - 11:43pm PT
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hold it, I don't know when he last soled El Cap, but Charles can't be 68 today (can he?)
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 20, 2010 - 11:56pm PT
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Wasn't the Fish 86 when he did his last climb? The wingsuit jump after was pretty impressive, too.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Dec 20, 2010 - 11:58pm PT
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I don't think Fred ever did El Cap - too busy doing FAs?
Tom Frost did the Salathe' in 2001, age ~63, but Gerry Bloch was older.
The age group records (young and old) are kinda strange, though, if the person is just jumaring.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Dec 21, 2010 - 12:05am PT
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I wasn't thinking Fred Becky did El Cap. But didn't he do Sentinel in his 80's?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 21, 2010 - 12:11am PT
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He was 68, years, maybe decades, ago....
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em kn0t
Trad climber
isle of wyde
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Dec 21, 2010 - 12:33am PT
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Wasn't the Fish 86 when he did his last climb?
I heard he was 69...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 21, 2010 - 12:37am PT
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Easy there Em, as we both know, he's just a wee lad.
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Dec 21, 2010 - 03:09am PT
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God...It might be me if I don't get up there quick... :)
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Dec 21, 2010 - 09:27am PT
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As far as the oldest team, I'm thinking maybe E and Mo when they did Squeeze Play this year.
Mo = 57
E = 55
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Dec 21, 2010 - 11:37am PT
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Galen Rowell was in his 60's when he did the Nose in a day wasn't he?
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Dec 21, 2010 - 12:07pm PT
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Warren Harding is the only man to have been not only first up the Nose
but also the oldest (at that time) when he did the Nose in 1989 at age 65.
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nature
climber
Tuscon Again! India! India! Hawaii! LA?!?!
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Dec 21, 2010 - 12:11pm PT
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you got a plan in the works, gramps? Errr... I mean Rich ;-)
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Dec 21, 2010 - 12:26pm PT
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Damn, do I have two biological clocks? I now hear one ticking, and I definitely don't want another child! But I haven't really climbed Half Dome yet.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Happy Boulders
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Dec 21, 2010 - 12:41pm PT
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Charles Cole, 68?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 21, 2010 - 01:51pm PT
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So who was the oldest to put up an entirely independent new route on the Captain?
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