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Climbing like a Ruptured Duck

shiltz

12-Feb-2015
7:23:01 PM

This is brilliant...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRH9SvGQ6Rc

Don 'Villain' Whillans teams up with Chris Bonington to recreate Dovedale Groove, (E1,5b) a classic Lakeland rock climb pioneered by Don Whillans, Joe Brown with Don Cowan in May 1954.

barney800

12-Feb-2015
9:18:59 PM

Great stuff! I like the bit when Bonington is freaking out on pitch two. I guess I can relate to climbing videos much better when that sort of thing is going on.

As a (British expat) climber, with less-than-perfect knowledge of climbing history, I was wondering whether there was a local equivalent of Whillans. By which I mean that, when you set out on a Whillans route, it's pretty likely you're in for a experience very much on the thrutching and grunting side of things.

IdratherbeclimbingM9

12-Feb-2015
9:22:10 PM

On 12/02/2015 barney800 wrote:
>As a (British expat) climber, with less-than-perfect knowledge of climbing
>history, I was wondering whether there was a local equivalent of Whillans.
>By which I mean that, when you set out on a Whillans route, it's pretty
>likely you're in for a experience very much on the thrutching and grunting
>side of things.

Ask Mattj?
Heh, heh, heh.

dalai

12-Feb-2015
11:08:09 PM

Awesome find shiltz. Really enjoyed that!

Olbert

13-Feb-2015
8:27:31 AM

I really think the old(er?) fart would have been in a significant amount of pain had he fallen...then again, the slightly younger old fart looked sketchy as a bumbly on d-minor!

ajfclark

13-Feb-2015
8:35:26 AM

rodw

13-Feb-2015
10:08:51 AM

Excellent vid

egosan

13-Feb-2015
10:40:07 AM

On 12/02/2015 barney800 wrote:
>Great stuff! I like the bit when Bonington is freaking out on pitch two.
>I guess I can relate to climbing videos much better when that sort of thing
>is going on.
>
>As a (British expat) climber, with less-than-perfect knowledge of climbing
>history, I was wondering whether there was a local equivalent of Whillans.
>By which I mean that, when you set out on a Whillans route, it's pretty
>likely you're in for a experience very much on the thrutching and grunting
>side of things.

You will be after the Roland Pauligk and Henry Barber routes if you are after a little thrutch and grunt.

Mr Poopypants

13-Feb-2015
2:46:04 PM

George Owens routes in the Blue Mts. Classics - every one of them. :-) Take gloves and pruning saw.

Drake

13-Feb-2015
3:35:41 PM

That was brilliant- thanks for sharing. I'll just throw away my harness and cams now.

martym

13-Feb-2015
3:50:29 PM

Don Whillans reminds me of the dancing miner in Avalanches "Since I Left You" video clip..

So cool that they were "reenacting" it.. and now you could go back and re-enact their re-enactment.. Much like Leo Houlding did with Sir Chris on the old man of hoy...

MonkeyBoy

13-Feb-2015
5:45:39 PM

Excellent Work ! Love the stone and rope runner at the beginning, that's great. And I am going to climb more in my flat cap.

timbigot

14-Feb-2015
8:45:15 AM

This one with Don Whillans climbing with Joe Brown is great also. http://youtu.be/O6CTK2hFvrw

barney800

14-Feb-2015
5:31:42 PM

>You will be after the Roland Pauligk and Henry Barber routes if you are after a little thrutch and grunt.

>George Owens routes in the Blue Mts. Classics - every one of them. :-)
>Take gloves and pruning saw.

Cheers. And thanks in advance from my climbing partners too. They're going to have a whale of a time. Literally.

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