Jim Donini Appreciation thread

Once twas a climber Donini
Mighty proud of his horse-size weenie

No sign of Maestri high on the Torre
Egger's bones far below so gory

Donini found all this odd
Pronounced Cesare a fraud

Italian returned with Compressor
Removing all doubt what he was about

Maestri rapscallion
Donini the stallion

You may not be a great poet,
and all on ST now know it.

However you climb well,
and don't emit bad smell!

When J-Do met Maestri for a momentous debate at the World Sushi Summit:

In Alpinist Issue 2 ("A Climber's Life"), Jim Donini describes his 1978 attempt, with Michael Kennedy, Jeff Lowe and George Lowe, on the north ridge of Latok I (7145m) in Pakistan's Karakoram Range. The four men, perhaps the strongest American alpinists of the day, climbed more than 100 pitches on the ridge before Jeff's altitude sickness forced an end to the ascent. The resulting descent/rescue defined the term "epic." More important, in the nearly thirty years that have passed, twenty expeditions, comprising the world's strongest climbers, have thrown themselves at the ridge to finish those last three pitches without success. What has emerged is one simple fact: the 1978 effort may have been one of the strongest climbing attempts in the history of alpinism