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Kim Carrigan BOOK 9-Dec-2017 At 10:11:36 PM ima.seriousyoungliza

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OK....what most ...all ? ....Australian climbers don't have a clue about ... is wot Kim found when he DID start to visit Germany and France in the early 1980s ...and was involved with the beginings and evolution of the sport climbing revolution ...the ring bolts on SYL are one of the few clues ...

KIM ... WE'RE GUNNA NEEDA A WHOLE CHAPTER ON THIS EURO THING !!!!!.

...this is another clue

http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=5117

'...He profoundly influenced a potent nucleus of his contemporaries who would become the world's most significant trend-setting rock climbing icons during a crucial era of emergence during which the modern sport of rock climbing was defining itself in France. These agents of the modern era included the likes of such highly regarded legends as Patrick Berhault, Jibe Tribout, Antoine LeMenestral, Didier Raboutou, Alain Ghersen, Jean-Marc Troussier, Alain Robert, Catherine Destivelle, Jacky Godoffe, Lynn Hill, Ron Kauk, Wolfgang Gullich, Kim Carrigan, Luisa Iovani, Stefan Glowacz, Beat Kammerlander, Jerry Moffat and everyone who tried to emulate them!...'
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and this is another clue

an article in Mountain # 93... by KC... about the transition of French climbing from a focus on mountain climbing to a focus on hard free climbing on local crags .. in the new red point style ...
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and this is another clue .... ima posted @ Feb 2017 :

...a climbing trip is organised for some Slovaks to visit Frankenjurga , in 1983 ,,,, they are very impressed when they bump into Wolfy and Kim Carrigan...

http://alpinet.org/main/articole/blog_en_id_496_userid_0.html

When you put the article thru the translater , it comes out like this :

'...In the same year the Czechoslovak Alpine Association organized a trip Frankenjura and Pfalz where the best mule Slovaks saw with their own eyes what is free ascent. Sýcora Milan, the son of a Czech emigrant, led the group for climbers eager rocks and, to their surprise, climbed a IX +. At that time they met Gullich W. Kim Carrigan and other personalities in the bag with toothbrush magnesium,. Ours were not able to make only some eights but remained amazed by the new style of climbing and the use of magnesium. They were confident that home will be able to imitate Western aces and began a workout thinking....'

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..ALL OF THE ARM CHAIR EXPERTS ON KC THINK KC= AUSTRALIA= NEW WAVE = PROCUL HAREM

..that is sort of very narrowly right AND TOTALLY BROADLY VERY WRONG !!!!!!!

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