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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Sep 18, 2017 - 01:12pm PT
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Don,
No worries, just curious.
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 18, 2017 - 04:29pm PT
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Interesting that Chouinard's first wife was described above as "tiny". I once heard him declare (his exact words):
........."BEWARE OF SMALL-BONED WOMEN"
It seemed odd at the time, which is likely why I remembered it. Now it makes sense.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 18, 2017 - 06:11pm PT
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I don't have a lot of climbing cred but I can legitimately claim to having taken Malinda out for lunch.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Sep 18, 2017 - 06:22pm PT
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Reilly, what is the little guy going to think when you say his lady is out to lunch! lol
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Sep 18, 2017 - 10:11pm PT
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Hey, it's not like Yvon is a giant of a man. He keeps his women in his ballpark. No Amazons allowed.
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norm larson
climber
wilson, wyoming
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Sep 19, 2017 - 09:04am PT
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I just finished reading the book. I was a little disappointed. I've always admired Yvon and wondered about his past. This book fills in a lot of his early history and covers some of his early climbs. Mostly Yosemite and not much detail of that, but that info can be found elsewhere. It does have a lot of good old gossipy type stories.
Mostly I was disappointed by the authors lack of climbing detail. Saying things like Yvon was climbing 8000 meter peaks and calling Tom Frost's effort on the South face of Annapurna the north face instead ...Just details for sure, but it always makes me wonder about other details truthfulness. There were loads of good stories about many people I know though so overall I found it interesting if not complete. Could have used more and better photos as well. I'd recommend borrowing it instead of buying it, unless you were there at the time and personally involved.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Sep 19, 2017 - 10:07am PT
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Doesn't look like Stratton. Also way too old.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 19, 2017 - 04:51pm PT
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^^^GACK!!!!
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Sep 19, 2017 - 08:46pm PT
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........."BEWARE OF SMALL-BONED WOMEN"
Yvon's first wife would sit at her vanity desk and mirror in the woods at the Climbers' Campground in the Tetons, applying her makeup. No one said anything.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Sep 19, 2017 - 10:22pm PT
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Gill,
Probably why she was his first wife.
Malinda showed up in Camp 4 dragging a small suitcase. Showed up at my family's table, asked, "You know where Yvon Chouinard's tent is?
"Over there in the boulders, but it's not really a tent."
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