[tomtom]

its here if anyone wants a look: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2948013/Journal%20of%20Contemporary%20Ethnography-2012-Bogardus-283-308.pdf

[slackline]

Dave Graham gets serious about his current project...

But I'm not taking any chances. I started doing push-ups. And also sit-ups.

[jwi]

Good interview with Brenna:
http://eveningsends.com/2013/03/striven-an-interview-with-cristian-brenna/

[slackline]

A Practical Guide to Applying the V-System by John Sherman

[chummer]

Don't think this is a repost..some serious food for thought:

http://www.verticallifemag.com.au/2012/04/adam-ondra-good-bad-or-bad-good/

[MJC]

I'm guessing (hoping) it's a joke.

[chummer]

I'm guessing (hoping) anyone couldn't think otherwise. 

[crimp]

Oh it's obviously a joke.

Ondra isn't the harry potter of climbing.

He's the napoleon dynamite.

[MJC]

I'm guessing (hoping) anyone couldn't think otherwise. 

Wasn't implying you didn't realise by the way. I was thinking out loud. Via text.

[chummer]

I'm guessing (hoping) anyone couldn't think otherwise. 

Wasn't implying you didn't realise by the way. I was thinking out loud. Via text.

Don't worry, I didn't think you were!

[SA Chris]

http://www.climbing.co.za/2013/05/space-race-a-new-route-on-table-mountain/

Nice account of success after a nasty event.

[duncan]

I enjoyed this piece on climbing with legendary NZ hard-man Bill Denz.  Bill made multiple solo attempts on Cerro Torre in the late 70s and early 80s, getting most of the way up the last headwall  pitch on the compressor route, to within inches of easy ice to the top. Close but no cigar. We had several mutual friends who spoke of him in a mixture of awe and horror. It was no real surprise to anyone that he died on Makalu in 1983.

There is a further personal connection. The 'John Sheffield', Dave Austin's partner on the 'first turkey ascent' of The Shield, is actually John Fleming (from Sheffield). John also did an early ascent of Zodiac and, closer to home, put up Splintered Perspex on Chee Tor.  His tales inspired several of us to visit The Valley and get on those big routes. If anyone knows of John, can you put him in touch, I still have his ancient Mike Graham portaledge.

Mescalito, 1982.

[galpinos]

I was reading about him in this month's Alpinist. Bonkers.

[JackAus]

Not sure whereabouts this should go but here seems right.

www.verticallifemag.com.au/magazines/

Online (pdf) climbing mag from over here and NZ. Some good stuff.

[Sasquatch]

Trip report from a friend of mine: 

http://www.alpineessence.com/2013/05/solo-on-mount-hayes.html

[abarro81]

I thought this was a good read: http://vocr.sri.com/herson/climbing/tr/niad-kara.html

[tomtom]

This is an article - and a video (trailer) and its semi travelling/climbing - so god know sif this is the right thread - but hey, I liked it.

http://www.redbull.com/en/adventure/stories/1331596103488/video-karakol-kyle-dempster

[abarro81]

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=68674&f=0&b=0

New to me but maybe not to those who are older...

[duncan]

A Yosemite legend, partial inspiration for the film Cliffhanger - John Long wrote an early version of the screenplay and - allegedly, of course - responsible for funding many European climbing vacations in the late 1970s!

[Jaspersharpe]

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=68674&f=0&b=0

New to me but maybe not to those who are older...

I'm certainly older but I've never heard that story. Quality!

[mrjonathanr]

I'm older than you Jasper -and I've heard that story.  I can't remember the source - and I'd normally be sceptical- but I think it may well be true.

I didn't bother to read the Supertopo thing properly but it's about the plane crash, isn't it? And the myth of bad karma afterwards for the beneficiaries?

[abarro81]

The article posted at the start of the supertopo thread was just about the crash and the ensuing riches. There's a couple of posts about what happened to people afterwards but not much

[petejh]

We have the newbury by-pass rope access kerfuffle,  the yanks typically go big and have a drugs plane crash in the wilderness!

[r-man]

Was this mentioned in the Heinz Zak/Alexander Huber Yosemite book? Can't remember where I first read about it, but that seems likely.

I'd love to read the screenplay, wonder if that's still knocking around somewhere.

[Fultonius]

There's a film coming out about it soon. One of the segments in Reel Rock 8 was called Stonemasters and it touched on the story of the plane crash. It was really more of a trailer for "Valley Uprising" than a short in itself but the final film should be good.

A few climbers were set for life after that!