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Most Influential Climbers 6-Jun-2003 At 10:24:48 AM (removed)

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Dalai,

Agree that Tomo Cesen's solo of S face of Lhotse is surely the most remarkable alpine achievement, however is it influential ? Everyone else is too scared to repeat stuff like this ...

Hillary did lead the (crux) Hillary Steppe, but yes Norgay was outstanding, especially after watching the feature on Channel 2 on Wednesday night where it was revealed (to me) that it was Norgay's 8th time on the mountain and that the British knew that they couldn't do it without him. He nearly summitted with the Swiss dudes the year before. Why does Hillary get all the credit ? Again though, I dunno if he was influential.

These first two I've listed of yours were impressive, your other three were influential in that they changed or where at the forefront of a change in the way climbing was done.