[tommytwotone]

Anyone else read the extracts from his book in the Guardian?

He's the fella that got his arm trapped by a chockstone in a crack and chopped it off to escape...hardcore.

part one:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1313404,00.html

part two:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1314110,00.html

part three (watch this one, it's pretty graphic):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1315001,00.html

[cofe]

He's the fella that got his arm trapped by a chockstone in a crack and chopped it off to escape...hardcore.

i thought they'd removed the chockstone now? you can see why he/they did though - maybe it wasn't all a load of bollocks after all. CHOCKSTONES IN GRIT CRACKS COST LIMBS.

let that be a lesson to you all....

[webbo]

[jonP]

Bonk! I strike the boulder. Thwock! Again. The rage blooms purple in my mind, amid a small mushroom cloud of pulverised grit. I bring the rock down again. Carrunch! I growl with animalistic fury in response to the pain pulsing in my left hand.

I think he's been reading too many Batman comics.

[Bubba]

Out of curiosity, I poke my thumb with the blade. It punctures the epidermis as if it is dipping into a stick of room-temperature butter, and releases a tell-tale hiss of escaping gas. Though the smell is faint to my desensitised nose, it is abjectly unpleasant, the stench of a carcass.

Ewwww!

[Bubba]

And here is he is post accident - respect.

[AndyR]

And here is he is post accident - respect.

Some people might accuse him of chipping with that metal-ended prosthetic?

I can only hope he has a more 'low impact' attachment if he wants to do any bouldering in the UK  :wink:

[Bonjoy]

Sweet for monos though.

[dave]

thats gonna be wack for slopers.

[Pantontino]

To Andy R: maybe he is the mystery pocket 'comfortiser' at Brimham. Does Big Frank know about this yet? :shock:

[AndyR]

To Andy R: maybe he is the mystery pocket 'comfortiser' at Brimham. Does Big Frank know about this yet? :shock:

Zowee Cavey, you might be onto something there!

Bet Big Frank knows lots of people with one arm - afterall, there's plenty of inbreeding in deepest Nidderdale.....

[tommytwotone]

respect due - that mad hook ting would make indoor climbing a piece of pizzazz tho, hang the bolt-holes!

reckon he's got a rack of different attatchments - big fat hand shaped thing for jamming, claw for crimping etc?

[Bubba]

Aye, probably - I remember that double amputee (Hugh Herr?) had lots of different "feet" made for different styles of climbing.