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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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What about Roper, Rowell, Ullman and other authors? After reading their writings I was really inspired.
Ken
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Chris2
Trad climber
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Catherine the Great.
Reinhold Messner.
Yvon Chouinard.
Peter Croft.
Lynn Hill.
TM Herbert
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Gunkie
climber
East Coast US
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All those Vulgarians and Gunkies of like mind throwing down hard, ill-protected routes with hip belays, EB's, with the scowls of the Appies chasing them from behind.
And probably Royal Robbins for his solo of the Muir Wall in 1969. I still think that was one of the most balls-to-the-wall kind of ascent ever done.
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LuckyPink
climber
the last bivy
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in history?? cmon would hafta be Norman Clyde
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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I think it was that Moses guy. He climbed Mt. Sinai once and after he came back down, people said he had a pretty big pair of stones.
Plus he was famous for freeing a lot of stuff that people thought wouldn't go.
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Rudder
Trad climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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Can't believe no one mentioned Ron Kauk! :O
Harding & Robbins
John Long & Lynn Hill
Peter Croft & Ron Kauk
Dean Potter & Alex Honnold
If only one... for me...
John Long, of course... a man's man, kicks ass and takes names, "hey ladies!" and all that sorta stuff... hehehe
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pip the dog
Mountain climber
planet dogboy
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me, i'm thinking it would have to be one of the post-war working class brits. think about it: mostly sh!tty rock, heinous winter weather on nevis and environs, piddly gear, absolutely no cash (masters of dirtbaggery) -- and yet look at the standards they set, in their day, most everywhere on the planet (the alps, the himalaya.) who more then they inspired what we do today?
among them, i guess i'd pick joe brown.
^,,^
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Aha! Well put Warbler. I hadn't thought of it in that way.
Very good point indeed...for me...
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Tommy Caldwell for pushing the limits where no man has free climbed before...route after route.
Also, did you notice in the Dosage video where he free climbs The Nose and Freerider in a day, he didn't tape his hands, and at the end they are unmarred. 6000 feet of the burliest crack climbing on the planet and he didn't even scrape his hands up.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Bonatti: Titanium hard and classy. Also smart - he bailed on the Croz Spur something like 7 times before doing it.
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chez
Social climber
chicago ill
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Gdavis,
Good call on Tenzing!
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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The "most influential, inspiring" is a broad and profound distinction.
That distinction could only go to one great genius of ideas and experience and that's Jean Jacque Rousseau the father of the Romantic movement.
He created the very structure that inspired men to the idea that experiencing the sublime, risking death for the purpose of personal fulfillment was a positive pursuit and not just madness.
His greatest pleasure was to climb to a high precipice and lean over into the abyss and absorb the fear. Climbing is the useless pursuit of thrill and experience for its own sake,,, pure Romanticism of which Rousseau was the father.
Rousseau opened the Alps to the world, the world to the idea that climbing a mountain was a pleasurable activity!
Without Rousseau none of the other achievements mentioned on this thread would have ever been accomplished.
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WBraun
climber
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Good one Paul.
This a crude example of a disciplic succession of consciousness.
I'm glad someone here at least goes a little deeper.
And now back to surface, carry on .....
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Harvey T. Carter
Over 5000 first ascents................
(Photo stolen from the internet.....)
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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'Tronc Feuillu', duh
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Anastasia
climber
Not here
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Jeff Lowe & Greg Lowe
Etc..
The list is endless.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
the end of the world as we know it, & I feel fine.
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Awesome jahil! Captain Kirk soloing El Cap... "if you pitch, you sail!"
I can't believe no one has yet mentioned Alex Lowe.
But this is such a subjective question. Most inspiring to whom? Isn't that going to be vastly different for each person? We do share some things in common though...
Eric
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