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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 15, 2017 - 05:07pm PT
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The best alpine climbing takes you to wonderful, remote parts of the world where the local people are as interesting and memorable as the peaks you came to climb.
Post up some of yours!
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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May 15, 2017 - 05:57pm PT
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High bar to follow Jim... Maybe Eric Reynolds will post.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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May 15, 2017 - 06:06pm PT
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Do the Amish count?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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May 15, 2017 - 06:16pm PT
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I'll play:
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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May 15, 2017 - 06:17pm PT
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That's a Yamaha Enticer 34D!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 15, 2017 - 06:21pm PT
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I've always been partial to the ladies...
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WBraun
climber
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May 15, 2017 - 06:36pm PT
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But they all climb too because every living entity is always permanently tied into the immortal rope of the super soul ........
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 15, 2017 - 06:59pm PT
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But they all climb too because every living entity is always permanently tied into the immortal rope of the super soul ........
.... I forgot what I was going to say. It was good though!
I'm ruling out
the super sole
the rope a dope
soul on ice
I hope I don't die before I get old.
Carry on my wayward sons.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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May 15, 2017 - 07:36pm PT
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that sheepf*#ker that swung at my partner but missed for lardy reach from his broke back horse.
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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May 15, 2017 - 07:43pm PT
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Not all Argentine gauchos are old geezers
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 15, 2017 - 07:54pm PT
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The scar that is El Chalten was still years in the future. The young lady is Jane Wilson (Jay's sister). Her dance partner Tim from the Kiwi expedition is indeed glad that not everybody was there to climb,
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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May 15, 2017 - 07:58pm PT
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Perhaps some of these Nepali folks are climbers, but at least they live at altitude. Wonderful people.
A Mustang Harvest photo
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 15, 2017 - 08:03pm PT
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Screw that alpine sh#t.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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May 16, 2017 - 09:43am PT
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The guys who build and debuild the roads which we use to get us closer to the peaks
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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May 16, 2017 - 11:09am PT
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I've known Delma and Froilán for about 20 years. They are emblematic of the paisanos of the Sierras of Córdoba. These people have lived in the Sierras for untold generations, scratching out a living herding sheep, goats, cattle and horses, and growing what little else they could. When the highway came through, it opened the possibility to do business with passing tourists. Life became a little less harsh, although subsistence herding was still a principal part of family wealth. Many of the younger generation have escaped to the cities, but there are still homesteads scattered about the Sierras, some in remarkably remote areas.
The view from Delma and Froilán's front porch:
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 19, 2017 - 11:21am PT
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They make Joe look like a giant! And I know he's not!
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Brock Wagstaff
Trad climber
Larkspur
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May 19, 2017 - 11:38am PT
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Anye Machin 1986
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Brock Wagstaff
Trad climber
Larkspur
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May 19, 2017 - 01:53pm PT
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Totally agree with what Jim said about the people in the remote areas being as interesting (or more!) as the peaks you came to climb. Exploring the Tibetan Plateau from China in 1989. First Westerners since Joseph Rock, and definitely of interest to the locals.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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May 19, 2017 - 02:17pm PT
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"First Westerners since Joseph Rock"
Nice photos, Brock! I was in Golok (Amne Machen region) and Yushu, the fall of 1984 and summer of '85, though, on unofficial trips. George Schaller spent a lot of time doing wildlife surveys in that area, and across much of Tibet, before me. I know of and met other foreigners there as well.
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