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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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I'm thinking more like Southern Algeria?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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good finder's eye on those!
granite, gotta be
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Mattq331
Mountain climber
Boulder/UK
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Hmmm... tough one.
So I'm guessing it's a Vickers Wellesley, possibly RAF Sqd 47, operating in either N. Kenya or Sudan during the East Africa Campaign.
Trouble is, can't place the location.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2011 - 08:09pm PT
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It is a Vickers Wellesley apparently. Can't squeeze out any more internet info on it though.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2011 - 08:19pm PT
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Gf, that photo is very telling for sure. A really spry looking group for sure, and not exactly looking like Americans of today. Maybe they're Brits?
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llk
climber
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Spry indeed, but you can spot the cigarette smokers.
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Mattq331
Mountain climber
Boulder/UK
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One of the guys on the left appears to be holding a lemon. I can't imagine lemons were thick on the ground in Britain during the war, or just post-war. But then that looks like a Spitfire on the RH side, so I may be wrong.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Where? I don't know but where are the cracks? Definetly a place for slab aficionados.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2011 - 09:02pm PT
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I can't help but think our very own J-Do would find something pretty disappointing about the Second Coming, don't you Pilgrims? It wasn't enough that he was BORN with Camalot Blue eyes.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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I'm way to old for a second coming but not too old for a second helping.
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Tim Camuti
Trad climber
CA
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Ed- Thanks for that prompt. Tried looking at it with terrain layer (topo) and it is a pretty mountainous region. I love that there is stuff this grand all around the world, from my own backyard to east Africa!
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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This is great history. I'm thinking that some survivor must have written a book???
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Donini.....Did you enlist or were you drafted when Mussolini was in charge..?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2011 - 12:54am PT
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Rotten...Didn't you know?? It's common knowledge. J-Do got a deferment. He had to work in the family high-end handbag factory:
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2011 - 01:05am PT
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No Kidding!! How Cool!
google earth: 15.435896° 36.415315°
The place is thick with climbing features, jesus.
AND it has giant baboons and aggressive vultures with chicks he says. And only a few climbers before now. That TR that Speigl cites was from UK climbers!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dibs on the splitter.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2011 - 01:14am PT
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What Ron? you belaying Donini??
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Speigl
climber
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The domes are on the Sudanese and Eritrean border; we were told that you must not descend the Eritrean side, as the slope is full of land mines.
Sounds like a great place.
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ruppell
climber
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Where do you guys find this stuff? That place looks amazing. Put the Sudan on my list. As a side note how do I oversize pages to make them really annoying to read?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2011 - 01:41am PT
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More views from Kassala of Taka Mountain and its subsidiaries:
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2011 - 01:41am PT
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I wonder how much climbing the baboons are doing? We have threads on them doing incredibly hard stuff elsewhere in Africa of course.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2011 - 01:56am PT
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Eddie, did you notice that these Ruppell's Vultures fly up to 36,000 ft???? They are the highest flying bird in the world, having a special hemoglobin variant.
Not seeing your vulture streaks on Wikipedia, pls advise your link.
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ruppell
climber
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Holy shot you guys are cracking me up. You know there are only 600 of us in the US. Maybe we're looking at my great great great uncles birds here. Thanks for the laughs!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2011 - 02:08am PT
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Crazy isn't it Ruppell. Check out Wikipedia on your relative! They are also known as Ruppell's Griffins too. Weigh up to 20 lbs, 8.5 ft wing span, only 30,000 left.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2011 - 02:11am PT
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And, we also have in our archives, this crazy-assed business of baboons climbing way-hard stuff every evening and down climbing it in the morning, all to get away from leopards and hyenas:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=850043&tn=0&mr=0
Our Heason link doesn't go on about the resident baboons climbing Taka Mountain and her sisters, but they have to be doing it, don't you think?
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ruppell
climber
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So there are more of my possible great great great uncles birds left in existence then us humans with my last name in the US. Boy ain't that a hoot.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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your links on the page begining:
More views from Kassala of Taka Mountain and its subsidiaries:
show white on the faces at and below ledges...
36,000' is wild!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2011 - 02:30am PT
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I see what you are talking about now Ed. Killer links by the way. You are a stud!!
You have to wonder what was the adaptive purpose of flying so high. Or was it just not adaptive but a random variation. Jets have taken them in at that height according to Wikipedia.
So cool. Their hemoglobin has a hugely increased affinity for oxygen, allowing these immense altitudes.
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go-B
climber
Sozo
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Peter your first picture looks like you could belay off the plane!
They look like a herd of Camels!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2014 - 04:07pm PT
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So following up on this fantastic granite range (The Taka Mountains) above Kassala Sudan.
The American Alpine Journal on page 250, issue 2014, just now out, has a climb report by Jonathan Thesenga. He and his wife Brittany Griffith did several routes on these domes last December. Apparently it was 100 deg F midday, they report. And the vultures and baboons are still there.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Aug 26, 2014 - 06:12pm PT
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Pushing the Like button for Peter picking up this thread again.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2014 - 06:24pm PT
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again what this place actually looks like:
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 26, 2014 - 06:49pm PT
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Hope those people are ready for a real dirtbag invasion.
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crankster
Trad climber
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Aug 26, 2014 - 07:36pm PT
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Peter, that '41 photo is awesome.
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crankster
Trad climber
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Aug 26, 2014 - 07:42pm PT
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goatboy smellz
climber
लघिमा
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Aug 27, 2014 - 06:34pm PT
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Thanks for posting that Atlantic link Peter, makes modern daily lives and challenges look easy.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 28, 2014 - 01:00pm PT
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THE LOCATION:
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 18, 2016 - 03:58pm PT
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bumping this fascinating thread
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 31, 2018 - 09:13am PT
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bump again
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Jul 31, 2018 - 11:26am PT
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Looks spectacular, and perhaps that surviving the climbing and wild animals might be the lesser part of the epic.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 31, 2018 - 12:11pm PT
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Traveling thru Sudan is about as sketchy as it gets. Reuters reporters put it right near the top
of their list of sh!thole countries and among the top 5 for air travel nightmares. Eritrea MIGHT
be slightly better but what, you fly to Djibouti and overland it from there or hire a charter flight? 🙄
Pretty sure there’s no airline I would get on that flies to Asmara. 😉
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nafod
Boulder climber
State college
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Jul 31, 2018 - 12:14pm PT
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Bringing these over...this one lets you zoom in on one of the domes.
https://www.google.com/maps/@15.4297027,36.4271954,3a,15y,31.66h,113.54t/data=!3m11!1e1!3m9!1sAF1QipPdy4gnX_59c03HKYEqYOqy-df15lZMZWi6CSGi!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPdy4gnX_59c03HKYEqYOqy-df15lZMZWi6CSGi%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-2.9338646-ya353.5-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352!9m2!1b1!2i38
Check out the goats not wearing a harness. Gonna die? Na-a-a-a-h
https://www.google.com/maps/@15.4315679,36.4227828,3a,16.7y,70.28h,90.24t/data=!3m11!1e1!3m9!1sAF1QipOvAXbdJG0sV42yMJQrK_wOS7OGmPb9aBywPig4!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOvAXbdJG0sV42yMJQrK_wOS7OGmPb9aBywPig4%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-2.9338646-ya267.5-ro0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352!9m2!1b1!2i38
Also
https://www.google.com/maps/@15.4102679,36.399305,3a,15y,96.34h,105.12t/data=!3m11!1e1!3m9!1sAF1QipMf8YUjV5cDskZvHo1W2Tf00YnQKKrEhSctoqQb!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMf8YUjV5cDskZvHo1W2Tf00YnQKKrEhSctoqQb%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-2.9338646-ya233.5-ro0-fo100!7i10240!8i5120!9m2!1b1!2i38
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