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Looking for quote... from guidebook back cover?
rolsen1
21-Jun-2016
11:09:07 AM
I'm looking for a quote that I think I remember being on a guidebook back cover. I think. I've searched through my guidebooks and also the google but can't find it. Something like..

Climbing in Australia is lots of fun, except for those time when I'm about to fall

or something like that. Can you help? Which guide or other source, who is quote is it?

Thanks
BA
21-Jun-2016
11:31:59 AM
I'm pretty sure it was Ben Sandilands and it sounds like a quote I would have used in one of the guides that I produced, maybe inside the North Grampians guide of a quarter of a century ago?
rolsen1
21-Jun-2016
1:14:09 PM
Thanks BA, I'll take another look through the collection, that name sounds right.

ajfclark
21-Jun-2016
1:16:11 PM
On 21/06/2016 BA wrote:
>I'm pretty sure it was Ben Sandilands and it sounds like a quote I would
>have used in one of the guides that I produced, maybe inside the North
>Grampians guide of a quarter of a century ago?

Not just inside the cover at least:

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward" - EAG Glasgow
"In the case of wild inaccuracy, it is often reality that has got it wrong" HHGTTG Douglas Adams
BA
22-Jun-2016
11:35:39 AM
Simey and Glen ripped it from one of my guides and used it on the back cover of the first edition of the Grampians Selected Climbs guide. Wade Stevens used a few quotes from the North Gramps guide in his Wolgan Valley Guide; "What's the point of going climbing if you don't drink tea?". Said by Phil Armstrong to Smiley when he found out that Smiley didn't drink anything with caffeine in it.

IdratherbeclimbingM9
22-Jun-2016
4:39:19 PM
Where do we go to read BA quotes re his climbing experiences?
Heh, heh, heh.
dave1962
22-Jun-2016
5:10:23 PM
from the back cover of the Grampians selected guide ....
" what can I say ? blown away ? bedazzled ? bloody impressed ? all of the above would be close "
Bill Andrews
simey
22-Jun-2016
5:16:27 PM
I don't have the guide with me, but I am guessing the Ben Sandilands quote is, "Australian climbing always seems delightfully unserious, except for those moments when I think I am about to fall".
BA
23-Jun-2016
10:51:10 AM
On 22/06/2016 dave1962 wrote:
>from the back cover of the Grampians selected guide ....
>" what can I say ? blown away ? bedazzled ? bloody impressed ? all of
>the above would be close "
>Bill Andrews

That would be the quote from the review in ARGUS for the first edition. In my review of the second edition I said "not a patch on the first edition" and followed it with "that'll stop them quoting me on the covers of their guides" and it worked!

And yes Simey, it was Ben Sandliands. I have just read Dick Smith's book about Balls Pyramid and his name popped up there, along with a whole heap of other names from the past.
rolsen1
23-Jun-2016
4:34:33 PM
Thanks BA and Simey most appreciate.

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