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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Oct 21, 2011 - 01:00am PT
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Salathe' + Nelson
Robbins + Frost
Kamps + Higgins
Burton + Sutton
Hudon + Jones
Skinner + Piana
Alex + Thomas (Huber)
Tommy + Beth
Dean + Timmy
Yuji + Hans
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soaring_bird
Trad climber
Oregon
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Oct 21, 2011 - 01:47am PT
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How about Pete + his Crab,
uh.... LEB and Palin?
Seriously now, I second the votes for:
Habeler and Messner
Boardman and Tasker
The Huber Bros
.... and never to be forgotten....
Tom Evans and his camera(s) are a perfect match
and an endless inspiration for us all. Thanks for
all your great and thankless work.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Oct 21, 2011 - 09:48am PT
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Lechlinski/Gingery
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Trusty Rusty
Social climber
Tahoe area
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Oct 21, 2011 - 09:58am PT
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Dougal Haston/Doug Scott
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 21, 2011 - 10:04am PT
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Bonatti & Oggioni
Kurtyka & Kukuczka
Kurtyka & MacIntyre
Kukuzka & Hajzer
Hill & Yablonski
If you want a good read and look into the golden age of Polish climbing, take a look at Bernadette Mc Donald's Freedom Climbers.
"... there are those who, on the approach of severe pain, hear the very opposite call of command, and never appear more proud, more martial, or happy than when the storm is brewing; indeed, pain itself provides them with their supreme moments."
Nietzsche, Die fröhliche wissenschaft
I don't know what it is that makes Polish climbers espescially brave, but it was seen even during WWII. German soldiers have been telling stories about the extreme braveness and dedication of Polish soldiers.
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Oct 21, 2011 - 10:10am PT
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Don & Phyllis Munday (for exploratory mountaineering in the Coast Mtns)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 21, 2011 - 10:18am PT
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Cragman,
Hehe... tell us about the storms.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Row, Calif.
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Oct 21, 2011 - 10:22am PT
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Todd Swain and Peggy Buckey
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Oct 21, 2011 - 10:29am PT
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Harding and Rowell
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Steve L
Gym climber
SUR
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Oct 21, 2011 - 10:40am PT
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Kurtyka & Kukuczka
word.
I'm in the middle of Freedom Climbers now. Agree, its a very good read.
Yup, Poles are tough mofos. Its a proud, proud history.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Oct 21, 2011 - 10:41am PT
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Miriam O'Brien Underhill & her husband Robert had a lot of climbing adventures together and separately.
Miriam(1898 - 1976) was best known for the concept of "manless climbing" - organizing all-women's ascents of challenging climbs, mostly in the Alps.
I like her book: "Give me the Hills." They had some great adventures exploring remote mountain ranges in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.
The Robert and Miriam Underhill Award is given annually by the American Alpine Club "to a person who, in the opinion of the selection committee, has demonstrated the highest level of skill in the mountaineering arts and who, through the application of this skill, courage, and perseverance, has achieved outstanding success in the various fields of mountaineering endeavor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_O'Brien_Underhill
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 21, 2011 - 10:47am PT
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Cragman,
Hehe... not all Poles. It is no duty to be brave if Polish. And Poles are all over the scale from not brave to very brave, from not strong to extremely strong. And some Poles do not enjoy the storms connected to climbing all over their wife or being climbed all over by their wife.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 21, 2011 - 10:52am PT
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Yes you are!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 21, 2011 - 11:02am PT
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Cragman,
Just remember your wife. She will have to be spotting you. If not the landing could be painful. LOL..
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Oct 21, 2011 - 11:10am PT
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Bridwell & Stump
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 21, 2011 - 11:11am PT
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Ain't that a good deal. First you can prove your Polish braveness and afterwards she can enjoy your life insurance. It's simply a win-win situation.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Oct 21, 2011 - 12:31pm PT
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"Greatest partnerships" makes me think of people who are known as a team above and beyond their own personal celebrity. Most of the people mentioned upthread may have had great partnerships, but I think of them as famous individuals, possibly in the context of lots of different parters, before I think of them as peas and carrots together.
I don't know what would make a partnership the "greatest" but these are some well known (at least here) duos that pass my peas and carrots test:
Already mentioned:
The Huberbaum
Em and Bruce
Mark and Max
Not yet mentioned?
Ed Cooper and Jim Baldwin (before JB died)
Bolton and Lucy Brown
Mark Chapman and Kevin Worrall (I'm not sure that any one person has been involved in the FA of more of my favorite routes than those that you two put up together They're almost always star-worthy.)
Cummins and Ager (ditto...Although I've never seen you two in the same place, your FA oeuvre seems to be largely shared and outstanding.)
The Mendenhaals.
I don't know how much they continued to climb w/ each other after this pic was taken, but the story that went along with it and the image of partnership is what jumped to mind when I read the thread title:
Eastman and Higgins:
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Gary
climber
Desolation Row, Calif.
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Oct 21, 2011 - 12:37pm PT
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Chuck and Ellen Wilts. What they did in the Canadian Rockies was very radical.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 21, 2011 - 12:46pm PT
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Donini and his blue... camalot. Yeah, that's it. His blue camalot. What a pair!
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Oct 21, 2011 - 12:49pm PT
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