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Nkane
Trad climber
San Francisco, USA
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I wonder if La Sportiva is pissed that they didn't get a photo credit for the Solutions.
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alina
Trad climber
CA
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That's pretty bad. That first image is especially porny.
Alex, just say "no."
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tornado
climber
lawrence kansas
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What's next Abercrombie and Fitch?
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Transcending climbing idolatry to become a mainstream superstar. Will that peak when there's a superbowl commercial featuring his climbing, a candid short interview, followed by a plug for Sierra Nevada Pale Ale? Actually, life insurance would probably be a more likely sector. I can see the close-up death-defying scene with zoom out that transitions to the Prudential logo.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Looks like he is channeling Iggy Pop
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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It is what it is. He looks good, climbs hard, and, I'm assuming, living his dreams and paying the bills. All American success story if you ask me.
Susan
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 7, 2014 - 01:53pm PT
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Another less loaded image from that piece:
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Iggy Pop is good, but I saw him more as St Sebastian. He looks a bit tormented. Like he's waiting for the piercing arrow that is Forum commentary.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Hey girl...
...I died for your sins.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Nothing wrong with selling a little cheese. He is a good guy. Hope he can bank a little following his dreams. Inspiration is a valuable trade commodity. Legitimately so.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Homie don't diss on Alex.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Long live King Alex!
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Those photos taken at Cat Rock in Central Park.
http://mountainproject.com/v/107842074
http://mountainproject.com/v/cat-rock/106602575
Specifically Cat's Corner V0- (although he is climbing it backwards with his pants falling off.) And it's like one of the best boulders in Central Park.
Will the pants-falling-off thing become a trend in sport climbers next? Stay tuned.
Hope he got some money and a good girlfriend outta this gig.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Will the pants-falling-off thing become a trend in sport climbers next? Stay tuned
Just leaves me speechless . . .
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jstan
climber
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I think it was Yogi Berra who said, "The future just ain't what it used to be." When we let money become involved with anything, whatever that thing is, it becomes subject to commercial pressures. I got forced into a photo article once but I took no money. I agreed to do it under the condition that there could be no spectacular photos. There were none.
It is nice to get money for nothing. But nothing usually turns into something.
On another subject, I think every man really needs to have a daughter.
Hope he got some money and a good girlfriend outta this gig.
When you have a daughter the opposite sex becomes not quite so opposite. No longer a commodity. In fact your thoughts do indeed gravitate towards 12 gauge shot guns and double ought buck shot.
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Rudder
Trad climber
Costa Mesa, CA
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Anything that's good for Alex I'm good with... and I think his annual compensation isn't 100th of what it should be. On the other hand, I do think if I was gay I would like those pictures better. haha
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goatboy smellz
climber
लघिमा
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If a female climber posed liked that it would be considered sexist and demeaning. Good article but the photographer probably loves the D. NTTIAWWT.
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overwatch
climber
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Klaus and goatboy killing me
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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If a female climber posed liked that it would be considered sexist and demeaning.
Not by me. Just by folks who have not managed to shed their puritanical upbringings.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Aug 14, 2014 - 03:34pm PT
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Looks like he should be standing Castro and 18th St. hustling for a homo blowjob
Oh my god, that was soooo inappropriate. He is just a guy exercising his freedom of expression.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Aug 15, 2014 - 03:42am PT
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Stylist Michelle Cameron
A stylist for a photo-shoot of a climber? Baffling. I'm doubtful it was his idea to have a stylist on board. More likely standard procedure for such a journal. But still, it is defiling to the sport; practically mocking it.
It's been years (decades) since I've done any climbing; but I don't remember anything about a "stylist" involved in any photography or journal articles of the rock stars of that era.
No disrespect intended for Mr. Honnald, his achievements; nor is there any criticism aimed at the fame or financial gain he reaps for his amazing skills and efforts.
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David Knopp
Trad climber
CA
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Aug 15, 2014 - 08:36am PT
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Klaus i just blew coffee out my pie hole!
Thanks for ruining another keyboard!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 15, 2014 - 08:49am PT
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I don't care how nice a guy he was, he just sold his soul for a handful of shekels.
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Aug 15, 2014 - 08:53am PT
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He sold his soul by appearing in a, Magazine? Yea, right. . . .It would seem that Alex has a life, unlike more than a few Posters here. . .
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Jim Clipper
climber
from: forests to tree farms
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Aug 15, 2014 - 08:55am PT
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I remember someone in the art world saying that Ansel Adams' importance was diminished because he allowed his "portraits" to be reproduced en mass. Still, I admire his voice for conservation.
Ole! alllez, alles
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skitch
climber
East of Heaven
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Aug 15, 2014 - 09:24am PT
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Alex is probably one of the smartest climbers around, I'm pretty sure he can take care of himself.
Climbing was defiled YEARS AGO the first time a climber sold a piece of gear to another climber.
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Branscomb
Trad climber
Lander, WY
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Aug 15, 2014 - 11:37am PT
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I briefly met him this summer at the Wild Iris Festival in Lander. He was doing a North Face expo gig. Had to do the gig to keep his sponsorship, I'm sure, but didn't do a bit of showing off. A real quiet, seemingly very nice young person.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 15, 2014 - 12:09pm PT
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It would seem that Alex has a life, unlike more than a few Posters here. . .
To say that Alex has more of a life than someone you don't know is sad, not to
mention condescending and narrow-minded.
I am sure Mr Honnold is a very nice person. I just happen to think more highly
of those climbers who have forged a real life and pay their own way like
George Lowe, Ed Hartouni, or the many weekend warriors who lead their lives
of quiet, if noble, desperation.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Aug 15, 2014 - 12:22pm PT
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Go for it Alex. It's safer than FS'ing the Nose, and the pay is better.
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skitch
climber
East of Heaven
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Aug 15, 2014 - 12:54pm PT
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Every one of you would take a dick in the ass for $50. Hypocrites.
(Okay maybe I should have said you would do it for an offset alien. . .)
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Aug 15, 2014 - 12:57pm PT
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If a female climber posed liked that it would be considered sexist and demeaning.
What do you consider this?
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Aug 15, 2014 - 12:59pm PT
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Wow, That's bold talk skitch. Most of us wouldn't go back door man for less than a hunny note....
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Aug 15, 2014 - 01:17pm PT
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To say that Alex has more of a life than someone you don't know is sad, not to
mention condescending and narrow-minded.
Then you go on to day this...
I am sure Mr Honnold is a very nice person. I just happen to think more highly
of those climbers who have forged a real life and pay their own way like
How has Honnold not "forged his own way"?
F*#king A- more extreme lameness.
Go Alex!
hot...Hot...HOT!!!!!!!!
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Aug 15, 2014 - 01:20pm PT
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F*#king A- more extreme lameness from another old f*#k.
Shut up, gawdamn toddler!!
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Aug 15, 2014 - 01:22pm PT
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You caught me right before I deleted!!
Now go soak your dentures and nappypoo.
Gotta get up for happy hour.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Aug 15, 2014 - 01:23pm PT
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Uh-oh, I see BB wants a repeat of "Boobygate".
Uh-oh what's that?
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Aug 15, 2014 - 01:28pm PT
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Man, that guy is ripped.
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SammO
Social climber
Ohio
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Aug 18, 2014 - 10:16am PT
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In case you weren't paying attention, I'm pretty sure that pic BlueBlocr posted is none other than Beth Rodden, so the soul-selling business is still paying the bills.
As far as making distinctions between over-the-hill whiners who appear to live on these pages, and those out there actually doing something - anything, whether climbing, making an honest living, whatever - I have far fewer issues with Katie and Alex looking like real climbers in the Citibank commercial, versus some like a desperately over-hyped freebaser pseudomystic who appear willing to do just about anything, anywhere, screw everyone else, to make dollars.
Few here have the historic credentials, or the professional income security Mr. Stannard enjoyed, but he is really old school, when we all appreciated the eccentric outsider rep climbing had. Perhaps he also has grown weary of paying to see slides or now, videos of hot youngsters doing what we'd love to be doing, but have to work instead.
I've been far more bothered by the abysmal fantasies perpetuated in movies, from the Eiger Sanction to Cliffhanger to K2, and the climbers who made significant dollars as stunt doubles or extras doing impossible things, using horrible techniques and demonstrating ludicrous safety lapses.
There are ranges of slippery slopes out there, in every walk of life; that's why it's imperative to learn how to self-arrest, if you get my drift.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 18, 2014 - 10:31am PT
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Just to clarify my position for the Kumbaya Bolshies I don't consider climbing
a sport. I hold it much higher than that. I think money tawdries it in any
form and leads to such travesties as The Red Bull Cerro Torre Abomination.
Like Bill Clinton I puffed but didn't inhale by taking gear deals. I knew
even that was a gateway drug that would easily pitch me onto a terribly
slippery slope. OK, I'm going back to this month's issue of "Chess Life"
and, yes, I rue the effects of big money on chess, too. Luckily I never
had to worry about that, either.
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dhayan
climber
los angeles, ca
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Aug 18, 2014 - 12:15pm PT
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Everyone lives their life the way they seem fit. It's funny that the folks you criticize could give two shits about what you say.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Aug 18, 2014 - 12:25pm PT
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Blueblocr is Beth? Yes, that would surprise me.
Samm0, how about a trip report of what you've been up to?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 18, 2014 - 12:28pm PT
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dhayan, that's the trouble with SuperTopo: too many have reading comprehension
deficits and can't differentiate between criticizing ethics or mores and
personal attacks. You Kumbaya Bolshies are also so insecure in your beliefs
that you cannot stand it when someone challenges yours, or even has the
temerity to express their own, you so you attack the person rather than
discuss the issue in an adult manner.
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goatboy smellz
climber
लघिमा
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Aug 18, 2014 - 12:32pm PT
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What do you consider this?
Silly.
I'm impressed they could keep a straight face posing like that.
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dhayan
climber
los angeles, ca
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Aug 18, 2014 - 01:16pm PT
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Why pass judgment on someone else? It is really just passing judgment on yourself and your own ideas. I mean no offense to you.
Edit- this was in response to Reilly, not Goatboy. I always found that shot of BR funny too...and hot.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Aug 18, 2014 - 02:08pm PT
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It's interesting to see the judgements tossed around here per Alex, and how - the thinking goes - the boy would be more better and more pure if he fit the criteria of an amateur, as though any sane person believes that fully staged photos sporting fly duds is "real," and that having fun doing same is selling out to "the man." This "Lone Cowboy" archtype pimped so freely herein rode into the sunset eons ago. That doesn't make the modern article a "sell out," it simply makes the older article frozen in their own judgements, like a fly in amber.
I think it's all great, including the folks who are cryng fowl. That's exaxcly what they are supposed to do, according to their roles.
JL
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jstan
climber
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Aug 18, 2014 - 03:48pm PT
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In the early 70's a now widely known author told Mohonk's climbers meeting he had found tying his vocation to his climbing had changed his climbing. The inability to predict how commercial ties will change us is one of the factors a thoughtful person considers. The majority of climbers I knew in the late 60's were college students executing their life plans. Dennis Memet was the only one who described a multiyear series of trips when I asked him what he planned to do, ultimately. Little did I suspect this astonishing freedom would carry with it greatly decreased opportunities for young people generally.
When we make decisions, we need to watch out for the cost. Dreams can turn into nightmares, in just a few seconds.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Aug 18, 2014 - 08:10pm PT
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"I'm shocked, shocked to . . ." [see those photos]
(Casablanca)
;>)
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Aug 19, 2014 - 08:03am PT
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In the early 70's a now widely known author told Mohonk's climbers meeting he had found tying his vocation to his climbing had changed his climbing. The inability to predict how commercial ties will change us is one of the factors a thoughtful person considers. The majority of climbers I knew in the late 60's were college students executing their life plans. Dennis Memet was the only one who described a multiyear series of trips when I asked him what he planned to do, ultimately. Little did I suspect this astonishing freedom would carry with it greatly decreased opportunities for young people generally.
When we make decisions, we need to watch out for the cost. Dreams can turn into nightmares, in just a few seconds.
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Those are points well taken, John, but they belong to thinking relative to another era. Mainly the 1970s. It boils down to basic economics. I have some ties to Adidas Outdoor and their cadre of professional climbers so I see this stuff first hand.
In the 1970s, there was no such article as a profassional climber, and us so-called "soul climbers," folks in it for the pleasure of the activity, unfettered by commercial concerns, would probably have looked down on someone getting paid to climb. We had purer motives - or so we told ourselves - and compromising our soul quotient, our amateur high ground, was not an option. We believed we were better than that.
Then professionalism entered the game as climbing gained popularity and nowadays, quaint ideas like "soul climbing" belong to a bygone era. Virtually all participents at the very top level have multiple sponsors and none that I have heard of have ever turned down sponsorship dollars fearing they would compromise their moral code or for fear of greatly reducing their opportunities. The whold purpose of accepting sponsorship - and most of it is meager at best - is to increse their time spent climbing instead of doing a regular job.
JL
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skitch
climber
East of Heaven
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Aug 19, 2014 - 08:17am PT
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I have a friend with a huge collection of climbing magazines dating back to the mid 80s, I was flipping through them and noticed that there was a special section in those older mags that would talk about the publicity climbing had, like a Toyota commercial with a 1 second shot of a climber in the background, etc.
Climbers seemed very keen on the idea of climbing becoming a mainstream sport. I'm sure not every climber thought it was a great idea though, just like today there are some people that think climbing should be an Olympic sport so that climbing will continue to grow.
Since I have no way of making money from climbing I do not want to see climbing grow-I like having entire crags to only share with my friends.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Aug 19, 2014 - 08:41am PT
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If you ever see Phicobloc live you'll be a believer in "climbing" being an Olympic sport.
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skitch
climber
East of Heaven
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Aug 19, 2014 - 10:24am PT
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I've never understood watching sports, except for surfing, skateboarding and bike jumping.
I'm probably just not good enough to be competitive so I don't care to watch competition.
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Woody the Beaver
Trad climber
Soldier, Idaho
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Aug 19, 2014 - 10:26am PT
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I like that photo of Honnold a lot. It's just very competent wildlife photography, with soul and aroma. Would I prefer seeing a leopard wearing pants? As an editor I learned a lot about photo cropping from interview. Plus I'm privately convinced that I look like that too, which is why I carefully avoid mirrors.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2014 - 12:14pm PT
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Woody, I was going to say, you and Alex appear as twins, even. Except for you being an Arctic Blonde.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Aug 19, 2014 - 12:18pm PT
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It's hard not to see the resemblance . . .
Definitely Olympic material!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2014 - 12:34pm PT
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John, I wasn't aware that elizabethan collars were back in fashion.
Black and orange, of course I understand. Halloween.
Maybe now I have grounds hoping that empire waists will soon follow.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Trad climber
Shittalkqua, WA
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Jul 17, 2015 - 11:42pm PT
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 28, 2017 - 07:28pm PT
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Bump for the Vulcan Mind Meld...
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