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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 14, 2015 - 07:21am PT
This article is from a 1975 book, simply called Mountains by the Englishman John Cleare. The book is delightful reading.

Enjoy the article, but see the last para.

His auto-biography is certainly not lacking adventure.

And he is now no longer in control of things.

Now he's eighty, the void confronts him.

He is failing, that we all know.

But I'm certain he'll fail falling out of his chair.

I can relate to the scene, because I'm currently facing the rest of my life being crippled by COPD. As never before, I'm paying attention to the manner in which RR accomplishes things, the STYLE.

"God give me the grace to emulate RR going out the door."

Chiloe

Trad climber
Lee, NH
Feb 14, 2015 - 08:34am PT
Good heartfelt post about RR and MFM!
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Feb 14, 2015 - 09:57am PT
Mouse! Thanks for posting the nice John Cleare article about RR. I appreciate you taking the time to do that.

I have fond memories of John Cleare visiting my outdoor shop in Moscow, ID twice in the mid-70's. He was sponsored by RR to travel around and give climbing slideshows. We paid him a small fee for the slideshows & he slept on my couch, gave a great couple of slideshows, told wonderful stories, & even went climbing with us.

John was a very nice and very entertaining Brit. He was a capable climber, but his specialty was climbing photos & mountain cinematography. Obviously he was also a good writer and he told fascinating first person climbing stories about the big names in British climbing. He could mimic various regional accents and the stories were great fun to hear.

Here's a link to a small bio on him. http://www.mountaincamera.com/about_john_cleare_new_2.htm

John Cleare went climbing with us at a small area on the Snake River west of Pullman, WA. It was soon to be mostly drowned by a new dam. That winter he mailed me the below two photos, that he took during our climbing day.



Gypsy

Social climber
NC
Feb 15, 2015 - 08:38am PT
Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Feb 15, 2015 - 08:47am PT
Very cool article Mouse. Thanks.

Thanks to Fritz for the info on John Cleare too.

I love this stuff.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2015 - 09:21am PT
To auld clymer Dingus--
Vicious, vacuous, varmints, they are.
Everyone knows they should stay in the car.
Since ye enjoyed this bit, would ye like to hear how me & the Clough boy climbed Am Buachaille?
--Dr. TP
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Aug 4, 2015 - 01:12pm PT
Bump
For royal, the king of the ditch his way and not Warren Harding's still fits the place best, no killing the impossible or what ever over bolting is called
"GRID WORK" is not the way to continue . . . .

Also a bump,
For to say
come Back Gypse-may
The flames needs your eye, the flicker of joy
That was yours, is missed
I hope it is not me and my additions
That has kept you away.
Delusions of grandure from me?
Your stuff was so under praised
I feel the need to correct that
Your photography rocks, it inspires, and
Leads us all to strive to have
A Gypse eye.
Flip Flop

climber
Earth Planet, Universe
Aug 4, 2015 - 07:49pm PT
Joe Hill died in style.

"I lived like an artist. I shall die like an artist."


And when the commander of the firing squad said "Ready. Aim..." then Joe Hill said ""Yes, aim! Let 'er go. Fire!"

A true blue rebel.

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