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Brawl at Araps? 30-Apr-2009 At 3:29:37 PM billk

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On 30/04/2009 kieranl wrote:
>On 30/04/2009 billk wrote:
>>There was a really talented English climber in the '70s, whose name escapes
>>me just at the moment, >John Syrett. He severely damaged a hand by cutting it on broken glass
>(I think at a drunken party) and could no longer climb as he used to.

Well done Kieran. If you hadn't come up with that it would have taken me til 3AM to get it.

Yeah, I think the story was that he had a bit of a drinking problem, then buggered his hand while pissed, and the combination of pain and not being able to climb like he used to turned the drinking problem into a terminal one.

Sounds like certain people would do well to listen to the wake up call on this thread so they can hang around long enough to discover the joys of being grizzled middle aged and old climbers.