[SamT]

    

[Oldmanmatt]

I kid you not, I put the Prodigy on, loud, for my training session this morning.
I’ve just read this.

Is it confirmed? I just heard someone on Radio X say that it’s not.

Edit:

Fuck.

Yeah Chris, same age as me too.

[fatneck]

Fucking Legend....

[SA Chris]

Looks Like Tom Ballard too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-47414944

[hansmaro]

Not again:( Hard alpine climbing is no joke it seems. I might be ill informed, but during the fifteen years or so I have been climbing, the casualty-rate seems ever-increasing? Especially the last seven or eight years the number of high end alpinists dying in the mountain seems alarmingly high. Or maybe it is like the psychological phenomenon where for instance you buy a new car, you seem to notice the same type everywhere?

[SA Chris]

Don't know, seems to have remained pretty constant. Greater range climbing maintains a fairly high attrition rate.

[Muenchener]

Seems like that to me too. Chris Bonington, Doug Scott and Rab Carrington are pretty much the only prominent survivors of their generation.

[SamT]

Phil Burke, Bob Dearman, Bob Toogood - all did a lot of stuff back in the day, all still going (mainly in Kalymnos). Whillans didn't succumb to the mountains either. 

[Falling Down]

Brian Hall and John Porter too.  Brian's still climbing regularly and fit as a fiddle. 

[Oldmanmatt]

It’s like warfare, though, isn’t it.

The majority make it back, but so many don’t, it’s hard to see them as a minority.

[SamT]

I remember Bob Dearman telling me that they once met a group of Japanese climbers in the alps one time in the 60s/70s. There were (I'm paraphrasing a little) say 10 of them, but they'd only bought 8 plane tickets back safe if the knowledge that not all of them would make it  .

Might be apocryphal, but the way things were back then, it wouldn't surprise me.   Bit like the early formula 1 days, looking round the paddock thinking who's going to buy it this time, and to a certain extent, the I.O.M TT must still be like that a bit.

[SA Chris]

I remember Bob Dearman telling me that they once met a group of Japanese climbers in the alps one time in the 60s/70s. There were (I'm paraphrasing a little) say 10 of them, but they'd only bought 8 plane tickets back safe if the knowledge that not all of them would make it  .

I remember hearing this too.

[Oldmanmatt]

I remember Bob Dearman telling me that they once met a group of Japanese climbers in the alps one time in the 60s/70s. There were (I'm paraphrasing a little) say 10 of them, but they'd only bought 8 plane tickets back safe if the knowledge that not all of them would make it  .

Might be apocryphal, but the way things were back then, it wouldn't surprise me.   Bit like the early formula 1 days, looking round the paddock thinking who's going to buy it this time, and to a certain extent, the I.O.M TT must still be like that a bit.

There are  two old ladies, who come to the Bunker to workout and climb a few V1’s; every Thursday. Maggie is  69, Romey is 74.
They lay into the rowing machine and the Xtrainer as if they have personally offended them.
After an hour, they sit down with their coffee and tell stories of their exploits in the 60’s and 70’s. They were both “Magazine” journos, of the trendy fashion variety, but also Alpanists and Himalaya vetrans. Invariably the convo swings to some epic, where X was crippled or Y bought it. I mean, I thought I had a few tales, but these old biddies would make a 20 year SAS vetran, blush.

[tomtom]

I remember Bob Dearman telling me that they once met a group of Japanese climbers in the alps one time in the 60s/70s. There were (I'm paraphrasing a little) say 10 of them, but they'd only bought 8 plane tickets back safe if the knowledge that not all of them would make it  .

Might be apocryphal, but the way things were back then, it wouldn't surprise me.   Bit like the early formula 1 days, looking round the paddock thinking who's going to buy it this time, and to a certain extent, the I.O.M TT must still be like that a bit.

There are  two old ladies, who come to the Bunker to workout and climb a few V1’s; every Thursday. Maggie is  69, Romey is 74.
They lay into the rowing machine and the Xtrainer as if they have personally offended them.
After an hour, they sit down with their coffee and tell stories of their exploits in the 60’s and 70’s. They were both “Magazine” journos, of the trendy fashion variety, but also Alpanists and Himalaya vetrans. Invariably the convo swings to some epic, where X was crippled or Y bought it. I mean, I thought I had a few tales, but these old biddies would make a 20 year SAS vetran, blush.

That’s exactly the sort of people Grimer should get on his podcast. Or get the Vertebrae people to do a book etc...

[Oldmanmatt]

I’m still trying to workout what an “Alpanist” is...?

F#@&ing fat fingered, illiterate, wazzock, version of “Alpinist”; I reckon.

[cheque]

Hal Blaine.

[Falling Down]

Jake Phelps - Skateboarder, editor of Thrasher. 56 yrs old. One of a kind.... RIP

Johnny Brown shared this great profile on him a couple of years ago https://story.californiasunday.com/jake-phelps-thrasher

[deacon]

 He was a cunt. But he was our cunt

[Johnny Brown]

The sun ain't gonna shine any more.

[tomrainbow]

Gutted by this news - Scott was a hero.

I double took when I saw the post above...relieved when I realised it wasn't about him.

[Falling Down]

I’ll be playing some Scott tonight RIP.  What a career and what an amazing songwriter, musician and composer. 

[duncan]

Ed Drummond

[andy popp]

Oh, that's come as real shock somehow. He did much to make climbing a richer, more interesting place.

Arrow boy.

[andy popp]

Or is it "Lovely boy, arrow climber."

[bigironhorse]

Ed Drummond

RIP. Great character and legend of climbing.