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Johnny K.

climber

Dec 8, 2013 - 12:01pm PT

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Synchronicity

Trad climber

British Columbia, Canada

Feb 19, 2014 - 05:17pm PT

bump

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Boulder climber

extraordinaire

Jan 17, 2015 - 01:21pm PT

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ms55401

Trad climber

minneapolis, mn

Jan 18, 2015 - 05:40pm PT

dude who soloed the Ragni on Cerro Torre

and again, the next season, in a storm. Unreal.

coolrockclimberguy69

climber

Jan 18, 2015 - 07:43pm PT

^^Markus Pucher

The "ballsy solos" that always grip my frontal lobes are the ones told over campfires attached to names that you've never heard.

I remember hearing about some dude they called "The Berserker" who would onsight solo up and down routes in Indian Creek. I remember someone talking about him onsight soloing up and then downclimbing Sinestra. Those of you who have done this route can understand how intense this seems. I'm kinda convinced that The Berzerker was just some Oliver Moon fictionality dreamt up over a few beers. They say he died in an avalanche in Canada. Throw another log on the fire.

Same guy also told me about this kid Pat who died falling off the route Thin Ice in the California Needles. He'd solo up Coyne Crack (11d), tap the chains, solo back down. He had just started climbing two years earlier.

Stories around a campfire. I keep hearing things about a dude named Cameron going for it in the Black Canyon without a rope. Too bad climbers are so dead set on not "spraying" about climbing because some of us like to have our minds blown about what kind of crazy sh#t random no-names are doing out there.

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Boulder climber

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Jun 9, 2015 - 11:01pm PT

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healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Jun 9, 2015 - 11:14pm PT

Got to second Porter on Asgard for sheer scope and scale of what was contemplated given the time - way, way beyond mere ballsy. Also Charlie's '78 solo of the Casual Route stands out for me.