Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
poop_tube
Big Wall climber
33° 45' N 117° 52' W
|
|
|
Aug 31, 2009 - 12:21pm PT
|
bump
|
|
Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
|
|
|
Dec 22, 2016 - 01:22am PT
|
Here's a piton with a story to tell.
The piton was used by Riccardo Cassin when Parete Nord Est del Pizzo Badile was climbed in 1937
On the team were Riccardo Cassin, Gino Esposito, Vittorio Ratti, Mario Molteni and Guiseppe Valsecchi.
Raiccardo Cassin was known as an excellent leader and a team player.
|
|
Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
|
|
|
Dec 22, 2016 - 01:28am PT
|
And then one more, a piton used by Riccardo Cassin when he and Vittorio Ratti climbed Parete Nord Cima Ovest di Lavaredo in 1935.
Parete Nord Cima Ovest di Lavaredo
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Dec 22, 2016 - 01:53am PT
|
hey there say, steve... thanks so much! enjoyed this... :)
|
|
SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
|
|
|
Dec 22, 2016 - 07:11am PT
|
And don't forget about Mt. Huntington!
|
|
Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
|
|
|
Dec 22, 2016 - 07:20am PT
|
No discussion is complete without Jim Herrington's moving, enduring image of Cassin a week before he died at one hundreds. Here he is gazing out his window at the first peaks he began climbing many decades ago, now a crumpled aged paragon. Herrington has posted this image on his website, so I feel free to hoist it up here and further Jim's tremendous work.
|
|
Alan Rubin
climber
Amherst,MA.
|
|
|
Dec 22, 2016 - 07:21am PT
|
Mt. Huntington? I think you are confusing Cassin with Lionel Terray. Cassin did, of course, make the FA of the Cassin Ridge on Denali.
|
|
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!