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Kim Carrigan BOOK 5-Mar-2017 At 2:25:17 PM ima.seriousyoungliza

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>>>Karma Sutra climbed in the style of its ffa is objectively harder and more impressive than Procul Harum climbed in the style of its ffa.

...apples and oranges...

>>>fires

most of the hard climbing '..to high twenties ...' would have been using EBs...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climbing_shoe

>>>rps

http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/the-guy-whose-nuts-revolutionized-climbing-r-p

>>>cams

'...Initially the first bit of gear I made was a halfsize friend which wasn’t available commercially. I can’t remember exactly what inspired me to make one but I think maybe just talking about one around the campfire… “Wouldn’t it be great to have a friend that would fit into finger cracks?”. And I thought, it must be possible, so I made one. That was sometime in late ‘81, I think......... Kim Carrigan offered to buy it off me for quite a large sum of money. [laughs]....'

http://www.chockstone.org/Interviews/MMatheson.htm

>>>..every farking area in the world which had a full-time scene ...

...and Kim was involved with all of them ...