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Kim Carrigan BOOK 8-Mar-2017 At 4:11:20 PM ima.seriousyoungliza

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Kim evagilizied about the new sport climbing religion in Europe ( which he was involved with from day one )

'...SmithRock.com: Speaking of the beginning of sport climbing, how did you decide to start putting routes up on rappel?
Alan: Well, there were two reasons. Part of it was just out of necessity to do the more appealing lines. The other reason was that it was just easier. Going from the ground up, doing routes that way, was pretty scary!
Part of it was just being a wimp, when it came down to it. But routes that we could climb from the ground up were becoming few and far between.
Smithrock.com: Were others placing routes on rappel before you, and did you know if it was being done that way in Europe?
Alan: No, I had no idea. It wasn’t until ’85, I think, before we started to understand what they were doing in Europe. Mainly when Kim Carrigan and Johnny Woodward and Jeff Weigand came to Smith in ’85, they let us know what was going on....'

http://smithrock.com/alan-watts/