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mikeyschaefer
climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 20, 2011 - 08:26pm PT
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From way back when to current times, what are some of the greatest partnerships climbing has seen?
Is it the routes they've climbed together? Is it the epics they've been through? or how long they've actually managed to stay friends?
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Gene
climber
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Oct 20, 2011 - 08:30pm PT
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I'll bite....
Robbins and Frost. For amazing bold climbs, techniques, style and gear.
Don't know if they are still friends.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Oct 20, 2011 - 08:43pm PT
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From more recent times, Todd Skinner and Paul Piana.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Oct 20, 2011 - 08:46pm PT
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Llama and Red Bull
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Oct 20, 2011 - 08:51pm PT
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I know it's hard to believe, but there have actually been climbers who weren't American. Or even primarily rock climbers. Some of them climbed together regularly and got up things that weren't rock faces in Yosemite national park.
Lionel Terry and Louis Lachenal come to mind. Whillans and Brown. Bill Murray and whoever he was climbing with...
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Oct 20, 2011 - 09:03pm PT
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OK seriously Herb and Jan Conn several hundred f.a.'s of 5th class spires, the hardest route on Cannon cliff for a couple of decades or something like that, and exploring a huge cave system that became a national park. Not sure if they like Red Bull.
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Oct 20, 2011 - 09:06pm PT
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Bonatti and Oggioni (not sure of spelling, without looking).
They did amazing things together.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Oct 20, 2011 - 09:07pm PT
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Fowler and (take your pick) Lowe, Wilford, Copeland, Boskoff.
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Oct 20, 2011 - 09:09pm PT
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The Huber bros.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Oct 20, 2011 - 09:21pm PT
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Ghost beat me to it. Whillans/Brown seems pretty classic
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Hilt
Social climber
Utah
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Oct 20, 2011 - 09:24pm PT
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Bachar/Kauk before they became frenemies. Together they pushed the limits that made them each individually great.
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tornado
climber
lawrence kansas
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Oct 20, 2011 - 09:41pm PT
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Tech and Gordon. Rad.
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marsan
Trad climber
Sydney, Australia
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Oct 20, 2011 - 09:41pm PT
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Kurtyka & MacIntyre
Kurtyka & Kukuczka
Kurtyka & Loretan & Troillet
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Jstod
Trad climber
North Vancouver
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Oct 20, 2011 - 09:42pm PT
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Doug Scott and Dougal Haston!
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martygarrison
Trad climber
Washington DC
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Oct 20, 2011 - 09:48pm PT
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hudon and jones still seem to get along.
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Oct 20, 2011 - 10:25pm PT
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Another one for Schultz and Croft .
Honnold and Honnald
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rick d
climber
ol pueblo, az
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Oct 20, 2011 - 10:46pm PT
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me and my right hand.
ooops, wrong thread- Locker save me.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 21, 2011 - 12:11am PT
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What's with y'all? No luv for Mallory and Irvine?
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Oct 21, 2011 - 12:20am PT
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Hillary and Norgay
nah
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Oct 21, 2011 - 12:27am PT
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Bonatti and his balls made a pretty good trio
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