To Bonjoy: All I did was defend Steve Dunning's reputation.
When I concurred with Stu, I meant that it is tragic that threads like this have to occur (reading it again perhaps he meant something different).
To Bonjoy: All I did was defend Steve Dunning's reputation
But nobody on here had actually challenged it
Is the Si O'Connor/ Steve Dunning/ Ben Heason debacle in anyway healthy for british climbing? How useful is it just to trust such self-publicists implicitly?
Are you suggesting that I shouldn't have defended Steve on Rocktalk or PF? Or, are you just saying I shouldn't have started this thread?
QuoteTo Bonjoy: All I did was defend Steve Dunning's reputationpantonQuoteBut nobody on here had actually challenged itbonjoyQuoteIs the Si O'Connor/ Steve Dunning/ Ben Heason debacle in anyway healthy for british climbing? How useful is it just to trust such self-publicists implicitly? johnny brownseems like a challenge to me.
I have no real beef with anybody, i'm just making sure that the moral highground is a well kept garden
I'd be interested to know whether these PM's are in the vein of backing up or backing down of said allegations.
its the folks who are witnessed failing on hvs,s then tell you they've soloed an e4 when no one was watching
this in its self does'nt matter at all.its when the guy [or girl] in question 3 or 4 years later can climb e6/7/8 etc. suddenley their previous ascents become part of climbing history.
Equally he could be 10 years 'weaker'.I used to climb about 4 times a week (both outside and in) now I'm lucky to climb twice a month.I used to go to the gym 3 times a week, now I rarely go at all.As a result I now fail on things that used to be standard problems.