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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 23, 2013 - 06:17am PT
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Hi Peter
Thanks so much for not forgetting me!
Apologies for the delay - spilling drink on my laptop has been something of a punctuation in my progress!! Anyway - back on track.
I have indeed been working on the project this whole time. It has been very fruitful.
Thanks so much for the tip on "Going Up" I'll be reading that next. I've been reading a couple ofbooks by UK climbers who knew Hemming, mentioned earlier in the thread.
I was prompted to get back on track today on the news of Layton Kor's passing - my thoughts, best wishes/prayers go to his family and friends. Sorry to hear this sad news.
I'll be sure to keep in touch with this thread over time.
Dom
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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - May 9, 2013 - 12:33pm PT
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Hi
So far I've been following up quite a number of the leads give me by you guys on this Forum. I had no luck reaching Herb Swedlund, Bill Briggs, a couple of others too.
I haven't had much luck finding out further details of the Teton tea party he attended. I have heard some of the story, but I would be interested to hear more.
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wbw
Trad climber
'cross the great divide
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Dom, give Jackson Hole Mtn Guides a call. I am almost sure they could help you in tracking down Herb, and probably Bill Briggs (not the brother of Roger) too.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Bill Briggs
295 E Snow King Ave
Jackson, WY 83001-9167
Home (307) 733-2453
Herbert Swedlund
Po Box 81
Twin Bridges, MT 59754
(406) 684-5841
I hope this helps Dom.
Last I heard, Bill still hangs out in the Virginian with his friends and his band plays on occasion at the Stagecoach in Wilson.
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open mind
Big Wall climber
italy
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May 11, 2013 - 07:09am PT
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in italy there's a book...." gary hemming una storia degli anni 60 ". Is a good book gary is a heroes for me.
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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - May 12, 2013 - 06:24pm PT
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Hey that's great, thanks very much.
I think that's the address for Bill that I had before but the letter was returned. I'll try the number.
I'll write to Herb too.
Thanks for the link to the biog, it was released in the UK too and I have had a bit of contact with Mirella Tenderini some time ago.
Great stuff - thanks everyone. Lots going on at the moment. I'll keep this thread updated.
cheers
Dom
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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May 12, 2013 - 07:22pm PT
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Dom, if Bill isn't at that address let us know. I know dozens of climbers in Jackson and will ask around if he's moved. He was an eminent local mentor and torchbearer for climbing/skiing for many years and a popular musician.
...I'm thinking not likely to move out of Jackson except in critical circumstances
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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May 13, 2013 - 12:59pm PT
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I think people have covered much of what I would have said,
my friend Mirella's bio and, of course, all the notes and facts
and info she couldn't fit into the book might be a source if she
were willing to share. Jim Perrin is an insightful and resourceful
person.... I don't know if Bill Briggs is still around, but he was
intimate with Hemming in the Tetons. You might contact Jody's father,
who was a ranger in the Tetons during those times and is still
a wise source of information and memories. There is so much about
Gary's suicide that seems never to have been quite resolved, the why's,
the if's (if it had to do with acid, if he had been mercilessly
harangued by cohorts in the Tetons until his fragile soul broke, and
so much more, some strange stuff about spirit travel and (I will
leave unnamed) religions that started to concern him in an already
paranoid state of mind.... Maybe those aren't things to go into in
a film. I don't know, but he had a complex life psychologically. That
was a notable element of who he was. Dave Dornan, I believe, is still
around and might be a well-spring of valuable thoughts.
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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 10, 2013 - 08:18am PT
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Hi there
I've been busy on the research trail. I got to meet with James Salter at the literary festival earlier in the summer. He's doing well for 88. We had a brief conversation and he mentioned how he had climbed with Royal Robbins and knew Mick Burke well.
The film project is progressing well.
I haven't had any luck with contacting Bill Briggs as yet, my letter got returned.
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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 30, 2014 - 07:09am PT
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Hi There,
Thanks for the update bump Steve. The whole process of making the film is inevitably a slow one!!!
Here, in the following posts are a few research tidbits in the meantime.
Hemming did an interview in French "Elle" Magazine in November 1966, which I have scanned here:
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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 30, 2014 - 07:24am PT
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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 30, 2014 - 07:24am PT
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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 30, 2014 - 07:25am PT
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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 30, 2014 - 07:26am PT
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Oct 30, 2014 - 11:38am PT
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Back in 1956 Hemming and I, keen to do something earthshaking, got to looking at the still-virgin NW Face of Half Dome. The route was obvious, but we had no illusions about our speed at that time. And Royal's new hauling technique was not yet known. We didn't think we could do it without a cache halfway along. So we plotted a traverse down from the base of the cable across to the route to stash supplies, probably not realizing that hauling stuff sideways would be more problematic than straight up. But I took a job as a seasonal ranger-naturalist in 57 which cut down on the climbing time, so before we managed to try that - which probably would have been a disaster - Royal and Jerry and Mike did the FA, thus saving us from ourselves.
WM
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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 12, 2014 - 06:19am PT
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That's a great story "WM", thanks for that. I was in contact briefly with Gerry Gallwas earlier this year in my research, He sent me some stuff from those early days of cutting your teeth at Tahquitz (I think).
Did you climb much with him overall?
Dom.
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Nov 12, 2014 - 07:10pm PT
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Hi Dom -
Climbed with Gary in Mission Gorge when I (we) were starting out, then some trips to Sierra peaks, tried Mt. Morrison face & got CO poisoning & almost bought it by rockfall, did most of the trad routes at the time in Tahquitz, then up to Yosemite and did a very early (maybe 2nd) ascent of YPB in - I think - '52. Can't recall anything after that. Can't recall much, actually.
For a while in Tahquitz we got cocky and tried to see who could climb with the least protection. I just about lost it on a long runout and saw the error of that attitude, but I think he hadn't sensed his mortality yet.
I think Barbara Lilley climbed with him some also in those early days.
Wayne
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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 18, 2014 - 06:07am PT
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Hi Wayne, fantastic stuff. Did you catch up with him later on after he'd been on his travels? What were your impressions of him as a younger man?
cheers
Dom
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