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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Nov 26, 2014 - 11:19am PT
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Duh!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Nov 26, 2014 - 11:30am PT
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so he pioneered his response – "alpine style" mountaineering
Yes, he pioneered it after Buhl started it.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Nov 26, 2014 - 11:47am PT
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Alpine style came first in the waaaaay back machine. It invented itself. Expeditioning and seiging came later.
Then Messner invented it!
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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Nov 26, 2014 - 11:58am PT
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I have seen this before, but read again; this sh#t cracks me up, its so over the top.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Nov 26, 2014 - 11:59am PT
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Parts of the article are annoying. The words "Reinhold Messner isn't still out there making the most formidable and deadliest mountains on Earth look like a bunch of pussies" are the words of a choirboy singing a false tune. The mountains took the life of his brother, and they treated him well when they didn't take his life too. He had the skill and luck was on his side.
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steve shea
climber
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Nov 26, 2014 - 12:07pm PT
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And then Jerzy Kukczka took it to the next and mostly unrepeated level. New routes on 8000m peaks, in winter without O's. Nobody did it better... the Poles as a group rule. Messner was bad ass though.
The Poles took high altitude super alpinism consistently to levels never achieved before. Even Messner thinks Jerzy was the man.
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