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Michael Hjorth

Trad climber

Copenhagen, Denmark

Mar 26, 2008 - 04:44am PT

And Albert Ellingwood is looking like an ancestor to the Huber Bros...

I am searching the net in vain for the barechested Comici photo (have to scan it when I get back home). For now I have these:

Emilio Comici, 1901-1940:

Michael

bachar

Gym climber

Mammoth Lakes, CA

Mar 26, 2008 - 09:59am PT

Comici...wow

Nice pics. Dude had some style too. Check them shooz! and pants!

Gene

climber

Mar 26, 2008 - 10:27am PT

Emilio Comici film.

http://www.videopoli.com/youtube/Emilio-comici__6u69RdfqytM.html

Enjoy.

SteveW

Trad climber

Denver, CO

Mar 26, 2008 - 10:37am PT

Tar
I know it's not the Hermann Buhl of
Nanga Parbat fame. No relation to him either.
I can't remember where I read it, but if I find
it I'll put it in the link.

WanderlustMD

Trad climber

Lanham MD

Mar 26, 2008 - 10:42am PT

Those are great shots of Comici. Talk about getting the rope behind your leg!
Those guys were heroes.

Michael Hjorth

Trad climber

Copenhagen, Denmark

Mar 26, 2008 - 05:55pm PT

Gene,

Great Comici film!
I like the comment after running out a pitch:

"The most important thing in climbing is the mutual security...!"

I am not sure, though, that his dynamic footwork would earn him style points today.

Michael

SteveW

Trad climber

Denver, CO

Mar 26, 2008 - 06:33pm PT

Tar
This article was in the current issue of the Trail & Timberline, from the Colorado Mountain Club

G_Gnome

Trad climber

In the mountains... somewhere...

Mar 26, 2008 - 07:52pm PT

Wow! Thanks for the Comici stuff Michael. He sure had style and grace. Looked like a little dude. Too bad he died at such a young age.

scuffy b

climber

up the coast from Woodson

Mar 26, 2008 - 08:09pm PT

some interesting belaying there, to someone who often uses a hip
belay without anchor.

Tarbuster

climber

right here, right now

Mar 26, 2008 - 10:44pm PT

Nice detective work on that Herman Buhl stuff there Steve.

Michael! Those Comici images are top-notch and very iconic to be sure. Super fun.

Jingy

Social climber

Flatland, Ca

Mar 27, 2008 - 10:39am PT

Looking at that photo of the guy in the white sox, converse style shoes, with the rope secured to the waist...

How did climbing become the great fun it is today on the shoulders of that for safty?

Great photos... Keep 'em comin!

Did I hear Facelift?

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Sep 20, 2008 - 05:47pm PT

Chris Jones and Joe Faint retreating from Hetch Hetchy, Galen Rowell photo

Nancy Feagin sending 5.11 on Half Dome, Galen Rowell photo

Michael Hjorth

Trad climber

Copenhagen, Denmark

Jan 15, 2009 - 01:52am PT

Arne Næss, iconic Norwegian climber and thinker described above, died Tuesday at the age of 96.
He was the uncle of Arne Næss, the shippingman, Everestclimber and former husband of Diana Ross.

1930, Oslo

2008, Oslo

Michael

Reilly

Mountain climber

Monrovia, CA

Jan 15, 2009 - 02:42am PT

Takk Michael, plus didn't he do the first route on the Troll Wall-the ridge to the left?

Michael Hjorth

Trad climber

Copenhagen, Denmark

Jan 15, 2009 - 03:18am PT

Hi Reilly,

No.
Trollryggen was climbed in 1958 by the almost-as-iconic Arne Randers Heen (53) and Ralf Høibakk (21).

I fail to remember any specific rockclimbs pioneered by Næss. But the two first ascents on Tirish Mir in Hindu Kush stand out.

Troll Wall with Trollryggen (72 piches!) on the left.

This summer Trollryggen was reclimbed by first ascentionist Ralf Høibakk at the age of 71, a 50y anniversary, together with Odd Eliassen and Stein P. Aasheim:

Høibakk (left) and Eliassen
Photo: Stein P. Aasheim