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13-Aug-2015 5:47:26 PM
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http://www.supertopo.com/rock-climbing/Yosemite-Valley-The-Rostrum-North-Face
>>>Then, in 1985 Kim Carrigan [ ABOVE ], Australia’s best cragsman, managed to turn the summit roof. Soon Valley regulars were running up this completed free route
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13-Aug-2015 6:32:21 PM
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On 13/08/2015 imaseriousyounglizar wrote:
>On 13/08/2015 simey wrote:
>>Yeah, fcuk reading a book on Kim... I want to read the Australian climbing
>>biography titled. 'Sleeping My Way to the Top'. But who is the most qualified
>>climber to take advantage of that title?
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>Probably not you , pimple dick ...
I agree. It requires someone who has actually reached the top, not someone who has just bumbled about.
Anyway, when are you going to start writing this Carrigan book yourself? I haven't seen much interest shown by those folk you keep mentioning as it's potential authors.
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13-Aug-2015 6:44:02 PM
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On 13/08/2015 simey wrote:
>I agree. It requires someone who has actually reached the top, not someone
>who has just bumbled about.
simey ...i do like u ... maybe ur just being a knob-ed cos u missed the araps golden age
>Anyway, when are you going to start writing this Carrigan book yourself?
well oviously i am ... and doing a lot of the leg work to get things moving .....cos java trumpet and claw are still spent from giving birth to claws book ...
>I haven't seen much interest shown by those folk you keep mentioning as
>it's potential authors.
modest arent they ...playing hard to get ... u know the drill ...
; )
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13-Aug-2015 7:02:22 PM
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>>>Anyway...
https://vimeo.com/75293650
Kim climbed this in 1984....how many aussies were climbimg grade 30 in 1984 ....
Bloody amazing ......................respect .....................
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13-Aug-2015 7:20:13 PM
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I reckon Mark Moorhead's ascent of Cobwebs in 1981 was more impressive.
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13-Aug-2015 7:32:44 PM
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On 13/08/2015 wallwombat wrote:
>I reckon Mark Moorhead's ascent of Cobwebs in 1981 was more impressive.
RIP Mark Moorhead
Must of been a bit of a wake up call for Kim when Mark did that one ...spurred Kim on to India 29 ish the next year ...in fact Kim graded India 29
because of his quick repeat of Cobwebs .......Claw reckons Cobwebs might be 29 .... Moorhead graded it 26 ... sandbag ? ... or was it those long arms of his ...
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13-Aug-2015 8:11:30 PM
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will monks on thecrag site :
>>>Kim cops heaps of crap but by gees he put up some hard classics years ahead of the pack.
Thats why Kims significance needs spelling out and picturing out once and for all...
Time for me to take a red-point falll .... ill be baaaacckkkkkk.....AAAARRRRGGGHHHH
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13-Aug-2015 10:11:32 PM
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Yeh but if ya wanna make
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ya need sex. thats what will give ya the
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so who did he root? was he a good root?
P.S. I do love the old school photos but 20 diff threads with the same ones…..yawn. just bump a previous thread where you say the same crap to save us some time. unless you say something different like...were you/was he a good root. and if you can’t remember say “I can’t remember who i rooted or why”.
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14-Aug-2015 8:51:58 AM
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On 13/08/2015 jayford4321 wrote:
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>P.S. I do love the old school photos but 20 diff threads with the same
>ones…..yawn.
I hear ya Stu.
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15-Aug-2015 3:43:09 AM
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On 13/08/2015 imaseriousyounglizar wrote:
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^^^ that's not Kim Carrigan - it's Freddy Mercury!!
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15-Aug-2015 3:45:16 PM
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nice.... looks like the saturation advertising is getting everyones knickers in a knot .... snigger
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15-Aug-2015 3:49:08 PM
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Here's CJs latest masterpiece...
new generation dudes paying homage to a root the Kim freed at Frog
https://vimeo.com/136182408
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16-Aug-2015 2:29:28 PM
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This is how the poms viewed the blur-y start to the Carrigan years
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Reference to Kim during the Carrigan years
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This sums up the blur-y finish to the Carrigan years
http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12198806000/print
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16-Aug-2015 2:44:56 PM
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Its been made clear on this thread that some ppl dont like , respect and / or understand Kim Carrigan ...
Well I like , and respect Kim Carrigan and appeciate the fact that Kim has a wonderful and significant story to show and tell ...
so why bother ...
Cos Kim has a wonderful and significant story to show and tell ...
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16-Aug-2015 2:55:05 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgtYrlFwzF0
One way to reduce bolting on the Totem Pole .... get this cat to do the leading ...
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16-Aug-2015 7:44:00 PM
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On 16/08/2015 imaseriousyounglizar wrote:
>Its been made clear on this thread that some ppl dont like , respect and
>/ or understand Kim Carrigan ...
I think the harsh reality is, most climbers under the age of thirty haven't got a clue who he is.
You better write the book while all of us that do know who he is are still alive.
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1-Sep-2015 2:50:57 PM
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>>>You better write the book while all of us that do know who he is are still alive.
Ima hearin ya ...
Now you take care , bro
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-25/become-a-wombat-warrior-with-your-mobile-scientists-urge/6723946
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1-Sep-2015 3:00:26 PM
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On 1/09/2015 imaseriousyounglizar wrote:
>>>>You better write the book while all of us that do know who he is are
>still alive.
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>Ima hearin ya ...
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>Now you take care , bro
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>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-25/become-a-wombat-warrior-with-your-mobile-scientists-urge/6723946
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Ima hearin ya 2 ...
Have they got a simeySAT app for mange induced by depleted stipend yet?
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1-Sep-2015 3:03:39 PM
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Just checked out Simey Carters Rock climbing down under ...
http://www.chockstone.org/Forum/Forum.asp?Action=Display&ForumID=1&MessageID=124492
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/how-simon-carter-gets-to-grips-with-rock-climbing/story-e6frg8h6-1227217581872
.... and theres a nice piece written by Kim Carrigan.... hes still got his lovely-magical writting style ... lots a gritty detail ... within a magical juicy bigger realm ....I want a whole book of that stuff !!! .....
....and I want plenty of classic Kim pics in A4 .... Claws book was too smalll for his pics ... and the steve monks pic in Carters book ( pitch one free route totem pole ) is way too small to show its quality and historic importance...( when seen in A4 this pic is easily in Carters top 10 pics in his carreer ... )
....and i think blurring the edges of the pics in Kims book will be the way to go ....draws u into the magic ....rather than cut and paste photo album type thing ....
Thanks again to Carter and Claw for making the effort to do the books ...
But I reckon the Kim Carrigan BOOK can establish a new benchmark ....
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2-Sep-2015 9:39:48 AM
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On 1/09/2015 imaseriousyounglizar wrote:
>Just checked out Simey Carters Rock climbing down under ...
(snip)
>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/how-simon-carter-gets-to-grips-with-rock-climbing/story-e6frg8h6-1227217581872
(snip)
Quote of Simon from the above link.
rock climbing presents a physical and mental challenge, flavoured by risk, that no other sport comes close to. When you’re in the flow on a hard route it’s like a “gymnastic dance”, he says; you’re totally committed, totally in the moment, in command of the rock — and yourself.
“People say climbers must be hooked on adrenalin,” he muses, “but actually I think it’s an addiction to that feeling of mastery.”
... It appears that he is a bit of a wordsmith as well.
;-)
>Thanks again to Carter and Claw for making the effort to do the books
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+1
>But I reckon the Kim Carrigan BOOK can establish a new benchmark ....
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Bring it on!
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