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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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Brock Wagstaff
Trad climber
Larkspur
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May 19, 2017 - 02:43pm PT
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The last set of photos were taken in the mountainous area some distance from the city of Lijiang in Sichuan province. We were attempting the FA of a mountain called Chanadorje. Given the number of adventure travelers in the world I'm likewise skeptical of claiming "firsts", but this is also what the locals told us. Anyway, it's an incredibly beautiful area! At the time there were three unclimbed peaks, the other two being Jambeyang and Shenrezi. Not sure if any of them have been climbed yet.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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May 19, 2017 - 04:01pm PT
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Thank you for the details, Brock. I'd guess if the locals said you were the 1st foreigners they'd seen, they were correct. I found that word travels fast and far in that part of the world, when it comes to reports of strange looking people :-)
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Daphne
Trad climber
Northern California
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May 19, 2017 - 05:09pm PT
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Those are wonderful photos, Brock! I had no idea you were also a great photographer🌞
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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May 19, 2017 - 07:51pm PT
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Here's some odds and ends.
Deux jeunes filles
De Chamonix.
You also see
A young Chris D.
Photo by me.
Balti porters, Pakistan.
In Laos the crags are all owned by the local villagers, and you have to pay a small daily fee to climb there. This is the lady (and her son) who collects the fee at one of the crags near Vang Vien.
EVERYONE IS SMILING!!!!!!!!!!!
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Avery
climber
New Zealand
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May 19, 2017 - 08:59pm PT
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Hi Jim,
Could that 'Tim' (in the dancing pic) be Tim Wethey?
Use to know him pretty well.
He's a very funny man!
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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May 20, 2017 - 07:03pm PT
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Bump!
Playing some v-ball on a Navy base in Ecuador. Waiting (and waiting and waiting) for a plane.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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May 20, 2017 - 07:36pm PT
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I am the Sherpa.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 20, 2017 - 08:28pm PT
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Avery....yes, it is Tim Wethey.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2017 - 07:17am PT
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Porters on the Chocktoi Glacier 1978
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