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Royal Robbins (RIP)
March 14, 2017, 11:36:54 pm
One of the very few, true greats.


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#1 Re: Royal Robbins (RIP)
March 15, 2017, 08:35:50 am
Shit, really. I've really enjoyed reading stories and watching films about the time of those guys. (even if some of the films had issues...) 

There's something romantic about that wild period, with mad men questing off into the true unknown. Another great passes on.

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#2 Re: Royal Robbins (RIP)
March 15, 2017, 09:43:50 am
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#3 Re: Royal Robbins (RIP)
March 15, 2017, 09:47:57 am
A giant.

RIP

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#4 Re: Royal Robbins (RIP)
March 15, 2017, 09:52:34 am
RIP, really liked how he came across in Valley Uprising, the climbers climber

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#5 Re: Royal Robbins (RIP)
March 15, 2017, 11:58:02 am
When I started climbing in the late 70s the FA of something like Salathe Wall was actually much more recent than say the FA of Indian Face is to today - and yet Yosemite, the routes, and the people seemed impossibly distant, completely unimaginable, and like Fultonious said, wildly romantic because of that. Robbins et al. seemed like a different breed of man.

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#6 Re: Royal Robbins (RIP)
March 15, 2017, 08:13:11 pm
Robbins and his contemporaries on Robbins, from 'Brave New Wild'.


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#7 Re: Royal Robbins (RIP)
March 16, 2017, 10:22:59 am

That's me going to have to buy/rent Brave New Wild now.......

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#8 Re: Royal Robbins (RIP)
March 17, 2017, 11:51:32 am
Someone i thought i should know more about when I saw Valley Uprising, which of his (auto)biographical books are best reading (and not horrifically expensive)?

 

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