Oldmanmatt
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SamT said:
Every hour long coach trip home from 6th form for 2 years.
Me too. St Austel SFC to St Tudy and I couldn’t afford a Walkman…
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mrjonathanr
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It was posted on the Climbers’ Club front page that he died of a heart attack on Tuesday but it isn’t visible today. Sad loss - his publishing was top notch. I didn’t know him personally.
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sherlock said:
And co-editor of Extreme Rock.
andy popp
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I never met Bernard, but in its heyday under his editorship Mountain was the pinnacle of climbing journalism and publishing. A sad loss.
andy popp
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Historical twitter is alive with rumours that so-called historian and convicted British holocaust denier David Irving has died. It's also alive with jokes that no-one can believe the rumours until definitive documents have been produced.
True or not, it's a useful reminder that I've neither read Deborah Lipstadt's book about Irving's disastrous attempt to sue her for defamation, nor seen "Denial," the dramatisation of the trial.
Still, his death (if true) is a salutary and sober reminder of the incredible persistence of antisemitism and Holocaust-denial. The trial was a damning judgement on the lie that is Holocaust denial and yet it is now perhaps more virulent than ever before.
True or not, it's a useful reminder that I've neither read Deborah Lipstadt's book about Irving's disastrous attempt to sue her for defamation, nor seen "Denial," the dramatisation of the trial.
Still, his death (if true) is a salutary and sober reminder of the incredible persistence of antisemitism and Holocaust-denial. The trial was a damning judgement on the lie that is Holocaust denial and yet it is now perhaps more virulent than ever before.
spidermonkey09
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Denial is very good, recommended.
Very niche, but Czech-born Swedish composer and bass player George Riedel died yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pZOcVvbEhw
George played on one of the best Swedish jazz album of all time, Jazz på Svenska, but more importantly he composed the film-scores to a number of children TV series and movies. As such he wrote the music to a lot of the songs I learned as a child. These songs were written in an era in Sweden when only the highest quality music and lyrics were deemed good enough for children. As such his few compositions have all passed the test of time and have entered the canon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHhue1GY5RU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pZOcVvbEhw
George played on one of the best Swedish jazz album of all time, Jazz på Svenska, but more importantly he composed the film-scores to a number of children TV series and movies. As such he wrote the music to a lot of the songs I learned as a child. These songs were written in an era in Sweden when only the highest quality music and lyrics were deemed good enough for children. As such his few compositions have all passed the test of time and have entered the canon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHhue1GY5RU
andy popp
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andy popp said:
And lo and behold, turns out Irving (probably) isn't dead (yet).
SamT
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:lol: (funny not funny)
andy popp
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Rock-climber (the "Kloebedanz Kid"), mountaineer, and film-maker David Breashears, aged 68:
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/everest/david-breashears-dies/
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/everest/david-breashears-dies/
andy popp
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I have just heard news of the passing of legendary North Wales character Cliff "The Captain" Phillips.
Cliff, a stalwart of the Llanberis scene since the 60s, was a man preceded by his reputation for deep, almost cosmic eccentricity and long-lived dirtbaggery. He was also known for some incredible tales of survival, particularly when he took a reputed 200ft ground fall soloing on the Mot, managing to crawl to the road before passing out. I believe he took another big soloing fall at Tremadoc.
I knew Cliff a little as part of the general 'Beris scene in the 80s and remember a rather sweet man. He was a very active new router on the slate at that time, and as a climber he was really much more than the reputation for oddness and mishaps suggests. He was actually very good, on rock and in the Alps.
Cliff, a stalwart of the Llanberis scene since the 60s, was a man preceded by his reputation for deep, almost cosmic eccentricity and long-lived dirtbaggery. He was also known for some incredible tales of survival, particularly when he took a reputed 200ft ground fall soloing on the Mot, managing to crawl to the road before passing out. I believe he took another big soloing fall at Tremadoc.
I knew Cliff a little as part of the general 'Beris scene in the 80s and remember a rather sweet man. He was a very active new router on the slate at that time, and as a climber he was really much more than the reputation for oddness and mishaps suggests. He was actually very good, on rock and in the Alps.
