Tenacity and the WoS

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steelmnkey

climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 10, 2006 - 05:52pm PT
I got way bored before I managed to read much of the ongoing WoS diatribe over there, but I did read long enough to have the following thought. And I say this with no real feeling about the issue one way or the other, except to observe that I don't believe anything in this forum is going to satisfy whatever it is they're looking for.

So anyway... the thought is thus:

Those two dudes were crapped on, verbally abused, physically threatened, had their route erased from under them, and who knows what else, and they still saddled up and spent 39 days putting up WoS. It's one of those classic less-than-wonderful moments in the history of climbing.

What makes ANYONE think at this point that even after 25 years, they're going to give in to a bunch of web-based arguments?

Could anyone picture Warren Harding (if he was still around, hooked to the net, and able to type) whining on here about how RR owes him an apology for the WOTEML?
dufas

Trad climber
san francisco
Aug 10, 2006 - 06:15pm PT
Good comparison. I saw harding give a talk, and he couldn't be baited on the topic of him and RR. Just gave a self-deprecating "wellll, ya know Royal's only problem is that he's way too smart". and then went on to the next question. Seemed like a real classy response.

phoolish

Boulder climber
Athens, Ga.
Aug 10, 2006 - 06:46pm PT
Your comparison is way off, like parsecs away from the actual situation.

Didn't Robbins stop chopping Wall of Early Morning Light because he respected the route? And then, didn't everyone heart Harding's penish forever because of the things he did in Yosemite?

To get the situation equal, you'd have to make sure that not only did Robbins chop some part of the route, but f*#k with Harding while he was up there, ruin a lot of his gear, and then smear him publically for a quarter century (based on lies, no less), leaving Harding a legacy of mentions only as a cautionary tale of how to be a terrible human being and royally f*#k up a route.

Then, you'd have a pretty apt comparison.
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