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Reeotch

climber
4 Corners Area
Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 22, 2018 - 05:05pm PT
In general I'm against the idea of "Heros" or "Heroines".

It's more about inspiration. There have been quite a few people, right here on Supertopo, who: Inspired me to push myself towards my potential as a climber; I read about even before I was a serious climber; Deserve credit as some of the greatest athletes of the 20th century.

Some, too many, have passed recently or before their time:
Bachar
Rowell
Harding
Robbins
Bridwell
Stump
Sorenson


I had the privelidge to meet Bachar and Bridwell. I'll never forget the time Bachar soloed up behind my partner and I on Oz in Tuolomne. We hiked down with him, and he was totally cool - down to earth. He helped me out with a shoe issue at Boreal.

Others, are still here, and I'm not ashamed to express my gratitude to these people, some of whom I've met in passing, just for the the inspiration I have derived from their stories:

Donini
Kauk
Braun
Croft
Hill
Long (Largo)
Schneider (Shipoopi)
Bengsten (You know, the Albatross)
Goldstone (Rgold)
Moshenko


Shoot, there are so many more names I could name. Point is, a lot of these people will never receive the credit they deserve, but for the climbing community.

So, thanks for the inspiration

Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Feb 22, 2018 - 05:25pm PT
There's something maybe worth adding here. Sure, it's easy to be inspired by the accomplishments of those who have pushed the boundaries. Whether simply by reading about them, or meeting them.

But what inspires me even more is to see someone who is not gifted, someone who is not a super-athlete, struggling to do the best they can.

You see them everywhere. The fat girl who comes to the gym, knowing that she doesn't look like all the superwomen/men around her, but perseveres and does her best. The old guy who has just discovered climbing and is struggling, right at his limit, on something you could solo...

Those are my heroes.
couchmaster

climber
Feb 22, 2018 - 07:17pm PT


....not heroes, but certainly inspirational are the many climbers (and nonclimbers) who do more than just climb hard. Putting back in and helping others out. Folks like Jeff Lowe, Neebee or Mark Hudon. For instance, look at the Supertopo Ian Gill thread with Hudon reaching out to the family, getting his gear sold for them etc etc....like that. Lots of others doing the same. Chris Mac doing a fund raiser, folks doing more, doing the right thing. These people are blessed and worthy.....too many to list all of them but it's a damned inspiration I'll tell ya.

OK, so they are my heros.
Reeotch

climber
4 Corners Area
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2018 - 04:13am PT
My own regular climbing partners are always an inspiration. They help me push myself.
I'm inspired by people like The Doctor, who is literally a climbing machine. I'm sure you've seen people like this. No one partner could possibly keep up with him. Even now he is constantly hooking up with climbers 20 - 30 years younger than he is. They are the only ones that can match his appetite for cragging. But, he's also giving back by passing on a lot of local knowledge and lore to the next generation.

And, Nature's SushiFest thing is pretty mind boggeling, when you think about it and how long its been going on. Now, that's some give-back!
Adventurer

Mountain climber
Virginia
Feb 23, 2018 - 04:58am PT
Over the years, I've had the privilege of making some high altitude mountain climbs with several world class climbers.

That said, about a year ago while on a leisurely walk at sea level, around a local lake, I met an elderly woman who was truly an inspiration. She was leaning forward bent over and holding on to one of those "assist walkers". She also had two rubber tubes extending into her nose from an oxygen bottle in the walker. Attached to the walker was a leash with a medium size dog on the other end.

When I said hello to her and mentioned that she had a nice dog; this was her reply:

"Oh, thank you Sir, but he's not my dog. I'm walking him for a friend who is not well"

karabin museum

Trad climber
phoenix, az
Feb 23, 2018 - 05:45am PT




Anytime I was poor or hurting in life my family came forward to help me. So my hero is my family, Mom, Dad, Sister and Brother.


After my wife and I divorced, through any tough times even when I broke my leg she was there to help. So my hero is also my Xwife Randi.


And then God stepped in and reorganized my world. My hero God is with me at all times! In my next life my list will start with God.







clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Feb 23, 2018 - 06:09am PT

Mostly, climbers are a great group and I feel privileged to spend time with these people.
10b4me

Social climber
Janie's
Feb 23, 2018 - 08:22am PT
Maybe it's just me, but I find that the people who find cures for diseases, or save lives, or make meaningful contributions to society, are the ones I consider heroes, but that's just me. . . . .
jogill

climber
Colorado
Feb 23, 2018 - 05:45pm PT
Maybe it's just me, but I find that the people who find cures for diseases, or save lives, or make meaningful contributions to society, are the ones I consider heroes, but that's just me. . . . .


Not just you. I'm in complete agreement.
Jon Beck

Trad climber
Oceanside
Feb 23, 2018 - 07:50pm PT
Emma Gonzalez

The NRAs worst nightmare, smart, strong and articulate


Claudette Colvin was arrested at the age of 15 after she spontaneously refused to give up her seat to a white woman. This happened 9 months before Rosa Parks orchestrated an arrest.


In 1955, Colvin was a student at the segregated Booker T. Washington High School in the city.[7] She relied on the city's buses to get to and from school, because her parents did not own a car. She said that she aspired to be President one day. Colvin was a member of the NAACP Youth Council, and had been actively learning about the Civil Rights Movement in school.[8] On March 2, 1955, she was returning home from school, and in a Capitol Heights bus downtown, she sat down about two seats away from an emergency exit in the colored section.[9]

The convention of the time was that if the bus became so crowded that all the so-called "white seats" in front were filled and a white person was standing, any African Americans were supposed to get up from these seats, move to the back, and stand if there were no free seats. When a white woman who got on the bus was left standing, the bus driver, Robert W. Cleere, commanded Colvin and three other black women in her row to move to the back. The other three moved, but a pregnant black woman, Ruth Hamilton, got on and sat next to Colvin.

The driver looked at them in his mirror. "He asked us both to get up. [Mrs. Hamilton] said she was not going to get up and that she had paid her fare and that she didn't feel like standing," recalls Colvin. "So I told him I was not going to get up either. So he said, 'If you are not going to get up, I will get a policeman.'" The police arrived and convinced a black man sitting behind the two women to move so that Mrs. Hamilton could move back, but Colvin still refused. She was forcibly removed from the bus and arrested by the two policemen, Thomas J. Ward and Paul Headley.[10][11][12] This event took place nine months before the NAACP secretary Rosa Parks was famously arrested for the same offense.[3] Claudette Colvin: "My mother told me to be quiet about what I did. She told me to let Rosa be the one: white people aren't going to bother Rosa, they like her".[4]

When Colvin refused to get up, she was thinking about a school paper she had written that day about the local custom which prevented blacks from using the dressing rooms and trying on clothes in department stores.[13] In a later interview, she said: "We couldn't try on clothes. You had to take a brown paper bag and draw a diagram of your foot [...] and take it to the store”;[14] and "She couldn't sit in the same row as us because that would mean we were as good as her".[15]

"The bus was getting crowded, and I remember the bus driver looking through the rear view mirror asking her to get up for the white woman, which she didn't," said Annie Larkins Price, a classmate of Colvin's. "She had been yelling "It's my constitutional right!". She decided on that day that she wasn't going to move."[16] Colvin was handcuffed, arrested and forcibly removed from the bus. She shouted that her constitutional rights were being violated.[3][11] Price testified for Colvin in the juvenile court case. Colvin was convicted of disturbing the peace, violating the segregation laws, and assault.[16] "There was no assault," Price said.[16] She was bailed out by her kind Reverend. He told her that she had brought the Revolution to Montgomery.[17]
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Feb 24, 2018 - 09:39am PT

Ralph Carr, governor of Colorado who fought the internment camps
for Japanese during WWII. He lost his career as a politician for his
stand.
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