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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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As I recall the Sierra Club RCS manual from that era contained the credo "the leader must not fall".
Interesting. Geoffrey Winthrop Young may have made this comment - its first appearance in print - in one of his books about 1920, Mountain Craft possibly. I wouldn't have thought it would survive into the 1960s in California. In the early 1960s Dave Rearick told me his approach to rock climbing almost necessitated a fall, that if you didn't fall you had not reached your limits as a climber. And Royal Robbins entitled a book Fail Falling. But the SC may have been still living in a bygone era.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Oct 20, 2014 - 04:27am PT
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pinckbrown
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe, CA
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Oct 22, 2014 - 07:17am PT
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EB's, Royal Robbins, Shoenards, PA's, John Long bongs, Goldline
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Nov 27, 2015 - 06:16am PT
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It is probably not the right place to post such mountaineering big leather shoes here, but, as this thread is well illustrated, I have thought that you may be interested to see these boots. If you look for the Trappeur Nanda Devi on the Internet, you will not find any information or photograph about them… The French mountain guide Walter Cecchinel was the technical adviser for Trappeur in the seventies and eighties. If they are not as famous as the Galibier Desmaison Makalu-Hivernale, from the historical point of view the Trappeur Cecchinel Nanda Devi are most interesting. Used on the Nanda Devi in 1975, these boots summited the Everest with Pierre Mazeaud, Jean Afanassieff and Nicolas Jaeger during the first French ascent in 1978. Then they became the Trappeur Everest 78!
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 27, 2015 - 08:32am PT
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America went all techno and lost it's soul.
They can't make a good shoe no more like the old craftsmen.
They are 0wned by the machine.
That's why America has become poor .....
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 27, 2015 - 08:43am PT
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Oh Werner, you should never have left the fine and quality life in the city of Duk, capitol of far away Ikantstandistan for the misery of America. Sure there's work and lives to save but things are so slack and shoddy here...Even cobblers can't deliver a proper boot to correct the situation directly.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Mar 31, 2016 - 02:11am PT
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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May 12, 2016 - 01:21am PT
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After 25 years of research, I have finally got this pair of Trappeur rare boots! It is an early model of Nanda Devi (Everest 78) that I believe was called Walter Cecchinel Cervin. What is amazing is that I found these French mountaineering boots in USA. Thank you David for all your help.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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May 19, 2016 - 06:19am PT
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 19, 2016 - 06:39am PT
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Like all climbing related equipment mountain boots and rock shoes were complete shite compared to what is now available. The equipment that has most advanced today's climbing performance has been ice tools and footwear.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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May 19, 2016 - 11:19am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 19, 2016 - 04:48pm PT
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McHale's Navy wrote, several pages back, asking: "Anyone know the Baboon Hang where you can quickly turn a long runner into a seat harness - if you are still conscious!?"
I have tried that and it works like a charm, if you've the standard runner size, which means one that fits comfortably over your chest diagonally, more or less. Longer ones aren't worth a damn.
Chuck Pratt is a name which I associate with the baboon hang. He may have written a blurb or said something in print about it.
Back to footwear...presented for our olfactory and historical sensibilities by someone attending the OCF in O in '13.
edit: Tony, you may be right--I couldn't decide if they were EBs or not...patch on the inner ankle, if that helps.
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Tony Puppo
climber
Bishop
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May 19, 2016 - 07:48pm PT
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Looks more like RR Varappe on Yabo
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Oct 29, 2016 - 01:53am PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 29, 2016 - 02:28am PT
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These may be resurrected Carry on !
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Jan 18, 2017 - 07:57am PT
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Does anybody know who made these shoes and what year?
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Mar 21, 2017 - 01:16am PT
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"PA" Pierre Allain, "RD" René Desmaison, "PE" Patrick Edlinger...
Is there anybody who knows what does "B.B." stand for?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 21, 2017 - 09:17am PT
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I have a pair of those boots also and have been wondering the very same thing. I don't even have a good guess beyond it likely being a French climber.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Mar 21, 2017 - 09:42am PT
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Thank you Master Grossman. Great to know that you have got a pair of these rather rare climbing boots. I should get a pair within a couple of months. Just a question: as most of the photographs which I found are in black & white, I am wondering if the red leather part of these B.B's found on eBay would not have been stained with a darker color.
Believe it or not, I do not have any idea about a French climber named with the initials "B.B."
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