"Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it."
--Ernest Hemingway
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Diego Sahagún - Aug 1, 2006 11:51 pm - Hasn't voted
Is it...not Rebuffat? You wrote Rebuffet.
Gracias
bbirtle - Aug 2, 2006 12:17 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Is it...Whoa! Nearly a big gaff. Thanks, I fixed the spelling.
Dave Daly - Aug 4, 2006 8:03 pm - Voted 10/10
Gourmet Read!Mmm....brain food!! Yummy!....Eye candy
Burp! Can I have a napkin please!?
Nice TR!!!!
fieldbio - Aug 4, 2006 9:38 pm - Hasn't voted
WOWGreat TR... congrats on making it out. Those decisions to turn back are always the hardest- it's just so close, and an easy walk off from the top vs. at least we know what's below us.
jordansahls - Aug 5, 2006 6:40 am - Voted 10/10
Babtism by fire indeed!Awesome TR, sounds like one for the record books. Glad to hear that you made it off the mountain, man would it have sucked to have been stuck up there! Still, the mental image of you and your partner running like hell on the glacier made me laugh very hard, though I guess it wasn't that funny to you.
Dustiano - Aug 5, 2006 5:30 pm - Voted 10/10
Wow!Great TR!
Crashmoore - Aug 7, 2006 5:50 pm - Hasn't voted
What a memory!I have always had a great ammount of respect for individuals who are willing to turn back, even with the summit so close. It sounds like you made the right choice.
Finarphin - Aug 8, 2006 2:40 am - Hasn't voted
Great RouteWhat a great route. I climbed it once upon a time. It's hard to transfer ratings from area to area sometimes, but I didn't think it was quite that hard. After doing a lot of face climbing at Smith Rock and then doing this I had the impression it was closer to 5.9. Big deal. How about that bombay chimney at the end?
MoapaPk - Aug 8, 2006 3:14 am - Voted 10/10
informativeGood report -- relevant pictures, and a sense of the emotional stress involved.
Jan Virt - Feb 20, 2007 12:12 pm - Voted 9/10
Great RespectI know this wall from our Mont Blanc trip last year via Maudit and Tacul. We were camping close to Midi when there was an accident. One guy fell off the top (almost 20m) down on small area which caught his fall. Don't know any details, but two rescuers had to rappel to him from heli. Not so nice when you hear screaming and shouting. I would like to climb it once when I get more experience.
Bart - Mar 9, 2007 3:21 pm - Voted 10/10
Great TRLike the style of writing, shame about not sending it!