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Havachatwithhexy... 16-Mar-2005 At 6:49:02 PM HEX

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'...HENRY BARBER :
A native New Englander, the legendary climber Henry Barber mastered the art of rock climbing by spending many hours studying the movements of monkeys in the Boston Zoo. As a result of this he developed an amazing style of climbing which combined mastery of technique, problem solving and creativity of movement to climb the hardest routes and be on the leading edge of the free climbing movement of the 1970’s...' (www.gunks.etc)
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>BTW none other than Mrs Hex obliquely and unintelligbly referred to these very peg scars >whilst trying to make some irrelevant and specious point in the tragically brief and >pointless 'bolt-free' Frog 'debate' (Mrs Hex was plainly of the persuasion that the bolts >should stay.) So it must be true. Har har : )

& apart from hissy-fit-Rob's boltz , all the bolts are still there...Har har ...looks like Mrs Hexy lept into Qurank, justinthenickofthyme......... you nickcompoop ...

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JamesMc
15/03/2005
>From memory ... He failed to on-sight Manic Depressive at Bundaleer.

He what ??!!

Greg Child went all :O when he talked with THE HB in the 1990s, cos Henry didn't use any cheat pile'o'stones to climb the hard bit at the start of the route ... something Greg had done during his ' FFA' ...

Also of importance, to those who are able to re-interpret ' ...failed...' , is the contribution Henry made at Araps , by free-climbing some of Procul ...

'...He revolutionized world climbing standards by continually reaching higher grades and pushing the limits of freeclimbing possibilities...'

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