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Sioux Juan
Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
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tucker tech ?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Do we only root for the home team?
Few here besides RP seem to have opened their minds to the fact that climbers are one of the few truly international communities.
Many terms come straight from other languages, and most of the techniques were developed outside the US.
Why should we only feel inspired by our own countrymen?
But much of our perspective is based on what other climbers say.
For example; outside the US the best known American climber is Bridwell.
At least, that is what Jim tells me,..
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Gotta agree with bvb about Tronc Feuillu.
And Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman have always inspired me.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Chris Jones because he wrote "Climbing in North America"
It was my bible in the early years.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Norman Claude
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lars johansen
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Mountaineering: Messner
Rock: Harding
Honorable Mention: [the real] Aleister Crowley
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Personally, I like the ones that could outclimb all of their peers, nursing a huge hangover.
Whillans
Harding
Pratt
and my local Colorado hangover friends
Newberry
Rosholt
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Andras
climber
Budapest, Hungary
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To keep up the "international atmosphere" of the thread, let me suggest some "most inspiring climbers" from the former Eastern Bloc:
Bernd Arnold, Wojciech "Voytek" Kurtyka & Pavel "Pavouk" Pochylý.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there all, say, yep--i'm just learning still, about all you folks...
and i see some great names that i've learned of, and still more to learn of, that i've never even heard of yet...
but, for the young girls growing up and climbing, i thought this was a well-to-look-up-to name... here is the link, of when i learned about her:
this being, bev:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=457454
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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There's a few Canadian folks that deserve to be on
the list too. . .how about Guy Lacelle and Will Gadd. . .
AWESOME on the ice!
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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A pretty subjective subject. Ron rightly notes the importance of not being parochial about it. Until the late 1950s, climbs and climbers from North America were barely on the radar in terms of internationally significant ascents. Notably, many of the best known climbs and climbers in North America to that point had a significant European flavour - Huntingdon (Terray), Cassin Ridge, Salathe, Wiessner, etc etc. Climbers from Canada and the U.S. were doing some quite inspiring things all along, particularly in the form of exploratory mountaineering, and were doing some notable things on the world stage, but it wasn't really until the 1960s that they really began to stand on their own.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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David Knopp
Trad climber
CA
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Alex Lowe-my hero, Steve House, mr. psyched
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Fletcher
Trad climber
the end of the world as we know it, & I feel fine.
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Kitty Calhoun! Plus she tells great mammy-jammy stories.
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno
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The guys who get out and get after it and are dedicated, in spite of not having sponsorship or notoriety...
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Evel
Trad climber
Nederland
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Oh Please. This one's really quite a no-brainer. Layton Kor
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Fletch
You got it!
Alpiniste par extreme!
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mtnkid85
Trad climber
Montucky
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This is a tough question, very subject to the individual as well as the location id say.
Robbins ethics really light me up, T. Caldwells recent free ascents are unarguably amazing. For me Alex Lowe and Conrad Anker are fire starters for sure. I also enjoy seeing/reading about what guys like Erik Decaria and Matt Segal and putting up on gear. The mind control the Honnald must have really is inspiring as well...
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Otzi! How many modern day badasses would tackle an alpine pass in leather and straw parkas and shoes?
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the Fet
Supercaliyosemistic climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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You can't narrow it to one.
I gotta add
Salathé
Inspired Robbins, Harding, et al. who inspired the next generation, who inspired the next generation...
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