[andy popp]

Just opened the paper to find an obituary for Pete Harding - a true legend. I had the pleasure of meeting him once and he was enormously modest and gentlemanly.

[Johnny Brown]

Which paper? Any chance of a link to an on-line version?

[Somebody's Fool]

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3109914.ece

[Johnny Brown]

That's brilliant, cheers Fool.

Even after being shown the technique, many persisted with exhausting layback manoeuvres or, even worse, followed textbook suggestions of the day which advocated climbing vertical cracks by forcing fingers and palms onto opposing walls of the fissure as though trying to part heavy sliding doors. In the end, Harding resorted to stunts to prove the efficacy of his technique, holding a lit cigarette between his fingers while he jammed smoothly up fearsomely steep gritstone cracks.

Clearly a man after my own heart.

[Jim]

sounds like my sort of guy.

[cofe]

That's brilliant, cheers Fool.

Even after being shown the technique, many persisted with exhausting layback manoeuvres or, even worse, followed textbook suggestions of the day which advocated climbing vertical cracks by forcing fingers and palms onto opposing walls of the fissure as though trying to part heavy sliding doors. In the end, Harding resorted to stunts to prove the efficacy of his technique, holding a lit cigarette between his fingers while he jammed smoothly up fearsomely steep gritstone cracks.

Clearly a man after my own heart.

i didn't know you smoked?

[grimer]

No, i think becaue of the smoking, Harding was after JB's own heart.

I phoned his home a few weeks ago to try to have a chat with him (I'd been once before, and he was a gent), and his wife said he was in hospital, and it hadn't sounded good.

Condolences.

[cofe]

No, i think becaue of the smoking, Harding was after JB's own heart.

very good...

Condolences.

likewise. i doubt he would have approved of my lack of style on valkyrie.