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General Climbing Discussion

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Naked Ice Climbing...

shortman
2-Dec-2014
7:31:39 AM
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/naked-ambition-ice-climber-scales-4727495

Hmmm....

Doug
2-Dec-2014
8:56:21 AM
Each to their own, I guess ...

MisterGribble
2-Dec-2014
11:43:01 AM
Erhard Loretan (3rd man to climb all 14 8k peaks) coined the phase 'naked night climbing', something I used to think was reserved to ascents of Tiptoe Ridge after a session in the Pines, but good so see it making a comeback.....
durks
5-Dec-2014
6:30:01 AM
On 2/12/2014 shortman wrote:
>http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/naked-ambition-ice-climber-scales-4727495

Fairly lightweight; looks easy climbing.

In the bar of The Clachaig Inn in Glencoe, Scotland, there are some photos which which show Rick Nowack climbing 'Elliot's Downfall' (VI) in the buff - see http://glencoescotland.blogspot.co.uk/2013_05_01_archive.html

That was in the early '80s. 'Later that same decade' - but on the rock this time - Jon Redhead climbed 'Solvent Abuse' (E3 5b) in the LLanberis slate quarries in the nude - and with the rope tied around his bollocks, for extra encouragement not to fall off ...


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