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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Mar 10, 2018 - 10:54am PT
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My goodness, Marlow, I've never heard of something like that in mathematics! Honorary doctorates, yes, but a regular degree at that age is phenomenal. Thanks.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 10, 2018 - 11:01am PT
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jogill
Høibakk says:
Mathematics deals, like life itself, with seeing patterns, contexts and symmetries. That way, we can orient ourselves in life and enjoy the beauty of an otherwise dim world. This doctorate shows that the solution to certain material technical and geometric problems can be beautifully expressed by whole numbers. To me, math is attractive. Suddenly a door opens for you and on the other side an experience of beauty awaits.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Mar 10, 2018 - 03:36pm PT
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I see he received a degree in engineering physics at Trondheim in 1962. I was there for a math meeting in the summer of 1997. It was organized by an old colleague of mine, Lisa Lorentzen.
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Lurking Fear
Boulder climber
Bishop, California
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Mar 11, 2018 - 12:33am PT
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As an older boulderer (yeah it's a word) of 55, I am irritated that we can't even get one thread that is dedicated to us. I mean do we really have to share our glory with mathematicians?
I believe we can boulder into our 70s if we use common sense by warming up well, and avoiding injury. Muscle wasting doesn't occur unless we become sedentary, so being a 70 year old boulderer is possible. I try to avoid falling out of control on or off my pad, and will simply not do certain moves if they seem to risk tendon or pulley injury.
I still climb with a rope but I'd always choose bouldering over cragging if I had to choose one. Plus as a non-mathematician I don't have to figure out how far I'm going to fall; it's always to the ground.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Mar 11, 2018 - 01:03pm PT
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I believe we can boulder into our 70s . . .
Some will be able to. Try to avoid spinal injuries when jumping. Mats may help, but it gets iffy after age 60. I stopped jumping (no mats then, but very low jumps) at 50, but by that time damage to my lower spine had been done, gradually deteriorating since then.
Good luck.
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Lurking Fear
Boulder climber
Bishop, California
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Mar 11, 2018 - 11:37pm PT
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Jogill, The other thing that might help me and many others boulder longer is that most of us are smaller in size. Although I may whine a little when I can't reach something, being a shorter and lighter is probably easier on the frame. I read what you're saying over and over elsewhere, and I have nothing but the highest respect for your mastery of bouldering, I'm just hoping I can be a special case. Its the only form of meditation I do.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Mar 12, 2018 - 09:22am PT
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I'm 66 and my normal bouldering partner is 70. The trick for us is to minimize or eliminate the landings by mostly traversing. We are lucky that there are some great traverses here in SoCal with some of them long enough to get a thorough pump. I am especially cautious as my lower back is always iffy but I do climb some highballs, but I only do those that I know I will not fall off of. So either the difficulty needs to be at the bottom with an easy top out or it just needs to be not too difficult. Either way I really enjoy bouldering and see no reason to give it up if one is careful.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Mar 12, 2018 - 10:58am PT
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I bouldered on Flagstaff Mountain until I moved from Colorado to Wyoming in 1986. I haven't really gone back to it, and now at age 79 do not intend to do so. I sustained remarkably few injuries from jumping down, but had several joints in my hands dislocate from the stress. The big knuckle on my right hand is still sore from being "popped" back in 1985!
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Mar 12, 2018 - 01:28pm PT
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Low traverses are a good compromise. I continued after age 50 to do easy problems and many traverses, up till my early 70s. Then arthritis at various places ended that.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Mar 12, 2018 - 03:26pm PT
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Yes, I wouldn't be surprised to hit the same limit. I already need to allow more time between sessions to let all the swelling settle back down after a hard day of climbing.
My friend Rich, who is already 70 seems mostly immune to those problems and except for needing to be careful with his shoulders can boulder almost every day. But then he was an Olympic level gymnast in college.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Mar 12, 2018 - 03:29pm PT
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^^^
You left out the part about him being a mutant...
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Mar 12, 2018 - 04:55pm PT
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What, just because his lats attach at the hips instead of the bottom of the rib cage, that makes him a mutant?
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Mar 12, 2018 - 07:46pm PT
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Did I hear Gill say "low traverses"?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
I have to say, the two artificial hips have relieved some of my arthritis problems (although my fingers are looking a little boney!)
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Mar 12, 2018 - 08:45pm PT
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I like the part where you take a short nap.
;>)
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Mar 13, 2018 - 05:36am PT
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Experience has taught me that the true low traverse makes for a smooth transition between bouldering and napping.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 13, 2018 - 09:55am PT
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Yanqui.
That sh#t was so hard, I didn't breath for 2:45 min watching it...
Except during the nap...
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CHUCK A
Mountain climber
LEVITTOWN PA
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Aug 19, 2018 - 11:03am PT
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I remember back in 1975 climbing at High Rocks at Ralph Stover state park in Tinicum Township, Bucks County Pa. an elderly, diminutive man approached me at the practice wall where I was climbing with two high school friends. I had no idea who this man was but he was with two college students with video equipment and he was watching me climb intently. Finally he approached me, stuck out his hand and introduced himself as "Lou Lutz". The way he said his name to me it was almost as if I should have heard of him but really I never had. He said the college students were from Temple University and they were videotaping him climbing for a college course. He asked me if I would climb with him. At the time I was 6' tall and in good shape. I remember this man looked like he was in his 70's and couldn't have weighed 150 lbs. I thought to myself (mistakenly) whatever he could climb I could too. I said: "sure, I'll climb with you".
We proceeded down the cliffs to a much more difficult area and began to climb. He went first and I followed. Needless to say, he was an amazingly graceful, technical climber who clearly knew how to ascend difficult rocks and overhangs. I however, very ungraceful and through sheer brute strength was able to follow him but it took me twice as long and I was clearly exhausted.
But at least I can say, "I climbed with Lou Lutz". He was a very nice man and a very could climber.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Aug 19, 2018 - 04:09pm PT
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^^^^^^^
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mike a.
Sport climber
ca
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Aug 19, 2018 - 05:30pm PT
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Sure love this super fun boulder problem at The Balls!!! I call it, Who Fired The Gardner V4. I am sure Robbins Rock Graft Group were all over this back in the early 70's!!!!
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