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Fab climbers who are also fab climbing writers

billk

17-Mar-2015
12:44:02 PM

#1 Steph Davis

http://www.tabletalk.io/post/letting-go

Climbing is a hard thing to write about for either insiders or outsiders, without over-dramatizing it or getting all personal-growthish. I reckon this is a great little piece that avoids those pitfalls.

bjorniam

17-Mar-2015
12:52:32 PM

Great topic!

I for one love the bitter twisted writings of Nick Bullock
http://nickbullock-climber.co.uk/

and CJ
http://cjclimbs.blogspot.com.au/2010/02/american-tourist-bunjee-jumps-remote.html?view=sidebar

wallwombat

17-Mar-2015
1:03:37 PM

I think American climber/writer Kelly Cordes is a very good.

I have always liked Greg Child's writing.

And I like the stuff I have read my British climber Mina Leslie-Wujastyk. I think we will hear a lot more from her.

IdratherbeclimbingM9

17-Mar-2015
1:13:57 PM

Good topic.

Off the top of my head, my (by no means exhaustive) list would include...

Joe Simpson, Greg Child, and Maria Coffey rule!

Old stuff for aid & Yosemite; Royal Robbins, Warren Harding, Yvon Chouinard, Steve Roper, Galen Rowell, Doug Scott; and then more recently John Long.

Aussie author stuff:; Lincoln Hall, Jon Muir, Greg Child (again, and deservedly so), & Mikl recently.

Mountain stuff; Chris Bonnington, Edmund Hillary, (& a cast of hundreds?)

Guidebook stuff; Simon Mentz / Glenn Tempest, Simon Carter et al, Gerry Narkowitz & Co, Kevin Lindorff & Co.

Argus stuff; BA!

Chockstone stuff; Hex, ODH, & Wendy!
~> Though I am not sure they would want to be lumped together in one category... heh, heh, heh.

phillipivan

17-Mar-2015
1:52:17 PM

Walter Bonatti.

He quit climbing, but didn't quit writing.

shortman

17-Mar-2015
2:02:38 PM

On 17/03/2015 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:

>Argus stuff; BA!

Think you forgot someone here.

>Chockstone stuff; Hex, ODH, & Wendy!

And here, :)

IdratherbeclimbingM9

17-Mar-2015
3:22:39 PM

On 17/03/2015 shortman wrote:
>On 17/03/2015 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>
>>Argus stuff; BA!
>
>Think you forgot someone here.
>
>>Chockstone stuff; Hex, ODH, & Wendy!
>
>And here, :)

Your climbing ambition is finally out-weighing your considerable funambulism talent??
☺

(removed)

17-Mar-2015
9:27:31 PM

Claw and Tempest

simey

17-Mar-2015
11:27:29 PM

Well I might have to write my autobiography... but that means you will have to argue amongst yourselves whether it is great climbing writing, or great footy writing.

MisterGribble

18-Mar-2015
8:52:53 AM

On 17/03/2015 simey wrote:
>Well I might have to write my autobiography... but that means you will
>have to argue amongst yourselves whether it is great climbing writing,
>or great footy writing.

"We were on the edge of the Wimmera somewhere around Natimuk when the routes began to get bold"

You and your attorney Simey.........

Eduardo Slabofvic

18-Mar-2015
9:55:36 AM

On 18/03/2015 MisterGribble wrote:
>
>"We were on the edge of the Wimmera somewhere around Natimuk when the
>routes began to get bold"
>

Mr Gribble! Run with that!

MisterGribble

18-Mar-2015
12:29:43 PM

On 18/03/2015 Eduardo Slabofvic wrote:
>On 18/03/2015 MisterGribble wrote:
>>
>>"We were on the edge of the Wimmera somewhere around Natimuk when the
>>routes began to get bold"
>>
>
>Mr Gribble! Run with that!

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up the Kingswood and then drive like a bastard from Melbourne to Natimuk. To relax, as it were, in the womb of the desert sun. Just roll the roof back and screw it on, grease the face with white tanning butter and move out with the music at top volume, and at least a pint of absinthe......

Salad days.....

Will_P

19-Mar-2015
11:59:26 AM

Like a funnier Mark Twight these days:

http://andy-kirkpatrick.com/blog

shortman

25-Mar-2015
11:04:06 PM

On 17/03/2015 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>On 17/03/2015 shortman wrote:
>>On 17/03/2015 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>>
>>>Argus stuff; BA!
>>
>>Think you forgot someone here.
>>
>>>Chockstone stuff; Hex, ODH, & Wendy!
>>
>>And here, :)
>
>Your climbing ambition is finally out-weighing your considerable funambulism
>talent??
>☺

10,001 posts M9. Well done, this one had no mention of aid climbing, although considerable does contain an a, i and a d.

:)

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