This photo is from 1983 and you can see me on Conchubar (20) the route to the left. This was shortly after the first ascent of Pipeline. Hans Mohler made the tubes for Fantini and bought some second hand aluminium mast from Tamar Marine, cut them to size and threaded them with sling. Fantini did the route onsight, and his second was a guy who had never climbed in his life and was reduced to a crying mess as Fantini literally hauled him up the route. I couldn't see the tubes when I was in the area last summer, so it looks like they have been removed. |