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WBraun
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I like this one because in the next frame you can't see here is he slides off .......eeeeeeeaaaahhhhhhHHH
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Yes Chiloe,
I led that Diving Board thing...
I got up to that reach, 'felt like a stretch.
So I slithered down a few moves in the offwidth (didn't weight any gear) thought of Werner soloing in the Valley Wide arena and charged back up for the finish.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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I had my own sequence for that crux, different from Roger's ... left jam low, step high, torque up and reeeeach with your right ....
Worked for me. I loved Diving Board, for a while.
Back before the Naked Edge went free, Bob Culp's shop sold a postcard of two aid climbers, with pigeons flying around behind them. I've forgotten who took that picture, which was inspiring as well.
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Jim E
climber
Mountain Road
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Tarbuster,
You seem to have lots of scans of early issues of Climbing. Would you happen to have the cover shot of a certain blond kid on Rosy Crucifixion? Probably on one of the first 5 or 6 issues.
edit: maybe not iconic to some but certainly to me.
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hlehmann
Trad climber
San Fernando Valley
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Tarbuster:
I have that book, and that shot is by far the most memorable one in it. I remember it hanging in the Yosemite climbing shop about 20 years ago or so. The rope hanging below him completely makes the shot.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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edit: maybe not iconic to some but certainly to me.
Hah! I heard last week from a certain guidebook author who is trying to get Eric A to unearth the
original of that photo from somewhere in his garage, where allegedly it was last seen.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jim E,
No, I do not have that issue.
...Now hanging my head low in shame.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Larry on Rosy...
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john hansen
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2008 - 11:38pm PT
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Bestor Robinson, Dick Leonard, and Jules Eichorn. Higher Cathedral Spire. 1936
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Useta be young ... cool, Greg.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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This one was iconic in 1975, and still is. So iconic that I've seen several derivative commercial versions in the last while. Take as the American K2 expedition first got to greenery on the way home.
Taken by Galen Rowell, and an evocative photo of a good friend.
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Chewbongka
climber
लघिमा
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That one pretty much sums it up MH!
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Skycutter
Big Wall climber
Hollywood, CA
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Nanga Parbat, July 4, 1953. Buhl returning to camp, shattered after an open-air bivy (standing up, no food, no O2, and his sweater (!) left at the tent) on descent from the only solo FA of an 8,000 meter peak.
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Michael Hjorth
Trad climber
Copenhagen, Denmark
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There is a natural bias toward the US in this fine thread. Allow me to put in a few icons from this side of the pond.
I recieved my first climbingbook in 1966 at the age of 11.
When I saw the picture of Buhl it scared me to the extend of not daring to look at that page for several years
(but I still have a pair of that type of goggles in a box somewhere...):
Herman Buhl, 1953
This is a great shot after a great climb.
Southwest Pillar of Petit Dru, Bonatti, 1955
Whillans and Bonington on their first ascent of Freney Pillar, Mont Blanc, just a few weeks after Bonatti's catatrophic descent, 1961
And one of the most iconic pictures from Scandinavia:
The introduction of pitons to Norway in 1930 by Professor Arne Nęss
I took a picture of Arne Nęss last week in Oslo at the Norsk Tindeklubb (=Norwegian Alpine Club) 100 year anniversary.
The professor has just turned 96. He stopped climbing and
bouldering at the early age of 92 (!)
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Not exactly iconic. But maybe we should start an Sheridan appreciation thread?
Michael
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho
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Whillans
I was trying to find the pic of Whillans hiking into a Himalayan base camp shirtless and carrying an umbrella on his pack while passing a tribesman. Does anybody recall that one?
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