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Posted: **Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:11 am**

Saw this linked from Dougald MacDonald's Mountain World blog, a nice set of photos from the first ascent of the North Pillar of North Twin:

http://www.barryblanchard.ca/northtwin

Posted: **Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:08 pm**

Those are some beautiful pics, thanks for the link.

Posted: **Fri Jan 22, 2010 1:34 am**

Excellent. Having been to Orizaba and New Zealand with Barry....one sterling individual.

Posted: **Fri Jan 22, 2010 1:57 am**

incredible!!! climbing .10d in gloves and ghetto rockshoes after being on that wall for 4 days. Is it just me, or are "modern" climbers getting softer?

Posted: **Fri Jan 22, 2010 5:15 am**

kiwiw wrote:Is it just me, or are "modern" climbers getting softer?

Well, I'm getting softer but I'm neither modern nor a climber, so never mind ...

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Photos from Barry Blanchard's site

Photos from Barry Blanchard's site