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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 20, 2013 - 11:12pm PT
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Checking the weather forecast on the wunderground.com site and noticed a sidebar with some intriguing photo collections. One of which was about the tallest mountain in Myanmar (yes, northern Myanmar sticks into the Himalaya). So I clicked on it, and it was sort of mildly interesting, but partway down there was a "More: Old Time Mountaineering" heading, and a selection of 52 black & white images that anyone interested in where we came from ought to spend an hour or so staring at. I think they're all from the Getty collection.
Check it out at http://www.wunderground.com/news/mount-hkakabo-myanmar-downgrade-20131120. Just scroll down till you hit the "More: Old Time Mountaineering" and then click away...
Definitely worth looking at.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 20, 2013 - 11:36pm PT
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More moldy-oldies, two never-before-published photos from history.
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Nov 20, 2013 - 11:42pm PT
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what a find!
any Bongs in there?
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Nov 21, 2013 - 12:23am PT
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Good find!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Nov 21, 2013 - 12:38am PT
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thx Ghost
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H
Mountain climber
there and back again
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Nov 21, 2013 - 02:25am PT
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good photos of Tensing and Hillary. I like seeing the early N. Parbat photos. Also good photos of Shipton and one 1909 photo of Mallory.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Nov 21, 2013 - 03:02am PT
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Thanks Ghost!! Amazing. WOW
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 21, 2013 - 05:41am PT
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hey there say, ghost... wow, great link...
have to go sleep now, but i copied the link for later...
thanks so much... i love old history type stuff of those that ' went before' , whether in climbing, or any skilled areas, or art, etc...
thanks again...
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Nov 21, 2013 - 11:08am PT
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An amazing picture trove with some of my favorite mountaineers and some I'd never heard of. Many thanks!
And I'm going to post the photo and bio of Fanny Bullock Workman to the chick history thread. I'm amazed that I'd never heard of her before.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 21, 2013 - 11:13am PT
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Those were most enjoyable, especially some of the captions. But I didn't
grok why the 1981 pic of Boardman et al was in there.
I definitely want to know more about Fanny Bullock Workman. I'm thinking
Bullock's department stores plays into her story.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Nov 21, 2013 - 11:16am PT
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Wow, so very good. Thanks Ghost!
That one of dragging bodies down from Mont Blanc is a little grim, yikes.
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jstan
climber
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Nov 21, 2013 - 11:58am PT
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"I can't believe I bought into this nonsense. What's done is done. i shall just have to stick it out."
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Nov 21, 2013 - 03:02pm PT
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Tami
Good catch!
The same photograph is in the book "The Endurance" by Caroline Alexander, 2000.
Page 183
"About to be rescued after 22 months"
"Aug 30, 1916: The Yelco is in the distance....."
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 15, 2014 - 01:49pm PT
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Ghostly Bump...
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