Alpine climber

by **The Chief** » Fri May 28, 2010 4:32 pm

BorutKantuser wrote:I haven't climbed these crowded beauties, but I'm sure one still finds some of Comici's pins on Cima Grande.
Badile is bolted as far as I heard.
What's the second pic?

The Super Couloir on the Tacul

And when I did Cassin's fine classic line on the Padile 30 some years ago, many of his original pins were still in place at some of the established belay anchor stations.

edit: corrections/additions

by **The Chief** » Fri May 28, 2010 4:36 pm

BorutKantuser wrote:
Tell me if I'm mistaken, but I think you climbed that one, didn't you?

March of '78 as I recall.

by **Diggler** » Fri May 28, 2010 4:54 pm

An alpinist is someone who climbs mountains in the alps...........
you´ll know if you´re one! :wink:

by **dskoon** » Fri May 28, 2010 5:15 pm

Nice pic there, Diggler.

by **rpc** » Fri May 28, 2010 6:11 pm

Chief,
if this is one of Comici's pins, then yes there's original shit still left on N. Face of Cima Grande :lol:

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EDIT IN:

The pins with the ring on them are also sub-modern but I doubt they date back to the FA....full res version of this pic has couple of them:

by **Alpinist** » Fri May 28, 2010 7:24 pm

My definition of Alpinist: I climb, therefore I am.

by **Lolli** » Fri May 28, 2010 7:50 pm

why are people screaming?

by **adventurer** » Fri May 28, 2010 10:06 pm

Lolli wrote:

"Why is everyone screaming"

Too much testosterone!

by **Lolli** » Fri May 28, 2010 10:16 pm

that's an inverted compliment, very suitable for men who find a lot of testosterone being proof of manliness

the alternative answer is bad manners.

by **The Chief** » Sat May 29, 2010 3:44 am

The Wood pegs are indeed Comici originals.

Thanks Radek!

Is that a Classic line or what?????

Something to cherish.

by **Lolli** » Sat May 29, 2010 12:40 pm

Is that for the Bhagirathi group climb?

by **Alpinist** » Sat May 29, 2010 3:08 pm

Great find!

Alpinist.1. A climber of the Alps
...........2 A climber

Such labels will always mean different things to different people. Shakespeare said it best.

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

by **Charles** » Sat May 29, 2010 4:27 pm

Dingus Milktoast wrote:I recently obtained a copy of James Ramsey Ullman's High Conquest. He wrote it to capture the 'state of the art' in mountaineering, what was going on, round the world.

It was published in 1941, as war again raged on the European continent and the Alps were the back drop to global conflict.

Pretty weird, to think of a mountaineering book being published during WWII, huh?

Anyway, the lead off to chapter two, written 70 years ago, contains this gem, directly applicable to this thread. I shall type it word for word.... as age has not diminished these words at all.

It goes like this:

(Chapter) 2
A Sport is Born
The Winning of the Alps
__________________
__________________

Alps.....1. A range of mountains in Europe
...........2. Any large range of mountains
Alp.......1. Any mountain in the Alps
...........2. An upland meadow or pasture
...........3. Any mountain
Alpine..1. Pertaining to the Alps
...........2. Pertaining to any mountain
Alpinist.1. A climber of the Alps
...........2 A climber

____________________

So you see, 70 years ago the debate raged!!!1111 For 70 years alpinists and mountaineers have slaughtered one another on the field of debate, a Great Quibbling if you will.

Not 'why do you climb?' No. More to the heart -

Are you a .... real... climber?

Hah!

DMT

Actually there were a lot of climbing books published in WW2 - I´ve got a number published in Germany during the war. One is a translation of a book by the French alpinist G.R. Blanchet with an introduction by General Charles Granville Bruce (of British Everest fame no less) translated into German and published in 1943! That surprised me.

by **asmrz** » Sat May 29, 2010 4:56 pm

ALLPEENIST

ALLPINIST

ALPIANIST

ALPINEIST

ROCK CLIMER ?

From the late Gary Embrey, May 1993.

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