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John Allen 7-Aug-2018 At 4:23:57 AM ima.seriousyoungliza

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On 4-Aug-2018 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>Tjuringa (25) ***
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>Enough said!

...had to search with a different spelling to pick up Tjuringa......sorensEn

http://www.thecrag.com/climbing/australia/routes/by/sorensen/between/+/?sortby=at,desc

http://www.thecrag.com/climbing/australia/arapiles/kitten-wall-area/route/12944077

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From Alpinist 17:

"In 1979 two other famous foreigners, SoCal Stonemaster Tobin Sorenson and UK gritstone climber John Allen, arrived. Like Barber before them, they opened a visionary route many local climbers had considered unattainable: the smooth Tjuringa Wall (25). A Tjuringa is a sacred Aboriginal stone, and the roof on the second pitch might indeed seem to require some form of supernatural power. Child recalls that the born-again Sorenson told Aussie climbers that God would protect him if he fell. A year later Sorenson died in the Canadian Rockies, soloing the North Face of Mt. Alberta. He left behind a legacy of intense boldness and vitality; partner John Long described him, in Tales from the Steep, as "alive in a way the rest of us were not." It's easy to imagine Sorenson still a part of the vivid Arapiles landscape."

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=116772&msg=418867#msg418867
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Mark Moorhead havinacrack at the second ascent of Tjuringa..

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=436658&msg=443437#msg443437
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...' bless you HB ...
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