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The Lectin ?

Thorkild

18-Apr-2006
6:21:59 AM

Lectin is the molecular glue of living organisms. Peculiar! A rock by the name "The Lectin". Why was the rock named The Lectin - is there a story behind the name - who named the rock? I would like to know. Read all about the interesting bio-molecule lectin on Wikipedia and continue to my site "World of Lectin". Please let me hear from somebody who knows. Yours, Thorkild C. Bøg-Hansen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectin
http://plab.ku.dk/tcbh/lectin-links.htm
PS. I have visited Australia three times, and of all places I would think that Australia would have a rock named after the glue bio-molecule.


IdratherbeclimbingM9

18-Apr-2006
2:01:10 PM

A lectern is kinda like a pulpit in a church yeah? ;P

More detail perhaps would make answering the question easier ?


billk

18-Apr-2006
3:58:26 PM

On 18/04/2006 Thorkild wrote:
>Lectin is the molecular glue of living organisms. Peculiar! A rock by the
>name "The Lectin". Why was the rock named The Lectin - is there a story
>behind the name - who named the rock? I would like to know.
Yours, Thorkild
>C. Bøg-Hansen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Well here goes then! I'm back at work already after the Easter break, I'm bored and irritated and ready to be sidetracked.

All cliffs get their own name but so too do particular climbing lines up those cliffs. The first person to climb a particular line gets to name it and is supposed to come up with an original name to minimise confusion. In this climbing game of ours, you want to be sketching and wimpering on the line you planned to be sketching and wimpering on - not some completely different one!

So, anyway, back to the particular case of the climb called The Lectin:

The guide tells us it's a 12m Gr 10 at the Pinnacles at Cape Woolamai (on Philip Island SE of Melbourne).

What that means is that it is short, forgettable and almost certainly just a pile of barely held-together rubble that only bears a passing resemblance to granite. Pretty witty don't you think, naming something like that after a biological glue?


IdratherbeclimbingM9

18-Apr-2006
9:06:41 PM

>Pretty witty don't you think, naming something like that after a biological glue?
Good research/reply billk.
Any details on 1st ascentionist/s and date?


billk

19-Apr-2006
11:57:41 AM

On 18/04/2006 M9iswhereitsat wrote:
>A lectern is kinda like a pulpit in a church yeah? ;P

Well done M9, I think you hit on the answer straight off 'coz the area the climb is in is Pinnacles/ Pulpit Rock! So what we've got is probably "The Lectern" horribly mis-spelt and nothing to do with lectin at all.

I think that's your answer Thorkild Bog-Hansen of Copenhagen.

Of course, if the FA is lurking, she or he will be able to inform us whether our logic is correct or not.


brat

19-Apr-2006
4:27:10 PM

Me thinks Thorkild Bog-Hansen of Copenhagen was trolling for traffic to his site!


billk

19-Apr-2006
4:46:14 PM

On 19/04/2006 brat wrote:
>Me thinks Thorkild Bog-Hansen of Copenhagen was trolling for traffic to
>his site!

I'm very disappointed that we haven't heard any more from him. I was convinced he was hanging on our replies to his post.

I think he should be made to do the climb as punishment for his inconsiderateness.

Dalai

19-Apr-2006
4:51:47 PM

Give Thorkild some time to reply... It's now only 8:50 am in Copenhagen!


IdratherbeclimbingM9

19-Apr-2006
5:05:30 PM

From his profile;
>Last posted on 18/04/2006 at 6:21:59 AM
>Last logged in 19/04/2006 at 6:56:57 AM
I reckon he has a genuine interest albeit not from a climbing perspective.

It's all good, as I often find myself wondering about details/incidents behind climb names too!


billk

19-Apr-2006
5:18:05 PM

On 19/04/2006 M9iswhereitsat wrote:
>From his profile;
>>Last posted on 18/04/2006 at 6:21:59 AM
>>Last logged in 19/04/2006 at 6:56:57 AM
>I reckon he has a genuine interest albeit not from a climbing perspective.

Yes, if lectins are his thing, he would be interested to see a climb called The Lectin.

>
>It's all good, as I often find myself wondering about details/incidents
>behind climb names too!

It was a fun post to reply to.

Thorkild

19-Apr-2006
7:04:40 PM

THE BIGGEST LECTIN EVER.
Indeed I was wondering whether somebody would name a rock after a biological molecule or whether it is a case of misspelling… Thanks for the comments. So I would hate to think that probably we've got "The Lectern" horribly mis-spelt and nothing to do with lectin at all … I have worked in the lab with lectins all my life and I am living in a country without rocks and where the highest elevation is a couple of hundred meter. Therefore I am genuinely impressed by rocks of any hight and by people who climb these rocks (thanks for the videos which I enjoyed very much). I would love to think that there is a rock named ”The Lectin”. I still imagine that somebody with knowledge of biological molecules named the rock ”The Lectin”. It would be rather difficult for me to come over to you and climb it and surely I would not take it as a punishment. Long ago I lived in Sydney a short summer and have been back twice, would love to come again. Please find the person responsible for naming ”The Lectin” - It may be a small insignificant rock but it is the bigest lectin ever.
Could somebody get me a picture ??


brat

20-Apr-2006
8:24:44 AM

I stand corrected, i think! :)

My sympathy on the lack of climbing though there seems to be some substitutes available!

Danish Mountain Club and Danish Sport Climbing Federation
Måløvhøjvej 14
2750 Ballerup
Tlf. 4466 4362
http://www.danskbjergklub.dk/

Copenhagen
Equinox Valby
36467777
http://www.equinox.dk
> Excellent new indoor 12m contoured climbing wall near the centre of Copenhagen. Self belay system available if you are on your own

NKK
Bragesgade 5, 2200 Copenhagen N
Copenhagen
http://www.nkk.dk

Hvalsoe
Giraffen
Hvalsoe, Denmark
http://www.klatre.dk

Bob Saki

20-Apr-2006
8:55:18 AM

I think the next FA anywhere must be called "Thorkild's Lectin"
after what can only be described as a unique post!


IdratherbeclimbingM9

20-Apr-2006
11:16:40 AM

Thorkild wrote:
>It would be rather difficult for me to come over to you and climb it and surely I would not take it as a punishment.

You might feel like it was a punishment if the climb is as unconsolidated* as billk implies with his words;
>(and almost certainly just a pile of barely held-together rubble that only bears a passing resemblance to granite).
... if you happen to fall off it, as unconsolidated climbs in coastal (highly weathered) areas are also often hard to protect.

[*You may wish you had something more 'gluey' than Lectin (molecular glue) with you if the hand/foot holds are suspect].

Any takers for Thorkilds picture request? ... as my location is probably 500 km away, ... ~ though still closer than Denmark to it!

BS wrote:
>I think the next FA anywhere must be called "Thorkild's Lectin"
Sounds like your on for putting up a loose horror show soon!


billk

20-Apr-2006
11:28:51 AM

On 19/04/2006 Thorkild wrote:
>THE BIGGEST LECTIN EVER.
>IIt
>would be rather difficult for me to come over to you and climb it and surely
>I would not take it as a punishment. Long ago I lived in Sydney a short
>summer and have been back twice, would love to come again. Please find
>the person responsible for naming ”The Lectin” - It may be a small insignificant
>rock but it is the bigest lectin ever.
>Could somebody get me a picture ??

If you come over some time, there are thousands of places to climb which are much nicer than Cape Woolamai (which has very scary, quite dangerous, climbing).

I will try to find out who did the first ascent and whether it's a misspelling or not.

Perhaps Joe Goding or one of the other new routers at the Far Pavillion would have a quality line (rather than a choss pile) that could be named Thorkild's Lectin. Any other new routers with something to offer? I know Toby Pola was considering sending a project at Taipan this week....


IdratherbeclimbingM9

20-Apr-2006
11:34:08 AM

Thorkild wrote:
>Indeed I was wondering whether somebody would name a rock after a biological molecule
IMO It sounds like a suitably weathered, isolated tor (egg shaped as the embryo of life?) would more poetically fulfill the name request, rather than someplace like Taipan?


shaggy

20-Apr-2006
11:39:21 AM

"The Lectin 12m 10
Start on the first pinnacle reached along the beach from the carpark, at a crack on the side facing Pulpit rock. The crack. David Burke, Harley Burke. 6.12.70"

From Eatsern Climbing Guide


IdratherbeclimbingM9

20-Apr-2006
11:41:55 AM

Thanks shaggy.
Sounds like the task is done if the double entendre is considered.

~ I wonder what D & H Burke think re our musings on it some 35 years later?

Bob Saki

20-Apr-2006
11:42:34 AM

>Sounds like your on for putting up a loose horror show soon!

there's got to be some nice loose stuff around the "It Moves" area at Melville's caves


billk

20-Apr-2006
11:54:46 AM

On 20/04/2006 M9iswhereitsat wrote:
>Thorkild wrote:
>>Indeed I was wondering whether somebody would name a rock after a biological
>molecule
>IMO It sounds like a suitably weathered, isolated tor (egg shaped as the
>embryo of life?) would more poetically fulfill the name request, rather
>than someplace like Taipan?

Good point M9.

Is there anything up at Buffalo that would fit the bill?

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