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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 9, 2010 - 02:23pm PT
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Wish I knew.
Yer gonna need some help from one of your senior discount friends around here.
If they can remember....HA!
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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2010 - 02:41pm PT
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You got that right, Survival!
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climbrunride
Sport climber
Purgatory
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Edward Whymper, best known for climbing Lembert Dome.
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jewedlaw
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Russell Crowe?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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I give up..? Random Kuhlzip?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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BRuce Springsteen....? Don Lauria?
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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2010 - 03:38pm PT
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No one's even close! Let's be patient and see if ANYONE can get this one!
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Morgan
Trad climber
East Coast
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No idea. He sort of looks like Hermann Buhl.
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aldude
climber
Monument Manor
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Bonnington - SW Face , Everest.
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mountain dog
Trad climber
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Eric Clapton? Known for climbing bar stools.
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billygoat
climber
Pees on beard to seek mates.
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Bluering's dad?
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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2010 - 11:35pm PT
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WOW!! Still no one's on to it! I'll wait at least until tomorrow...
Hint: His death by drowning resulted from his climbing impulse to tie a rope around his waist and remains a testament of what NOT to do in, around, or crossing rivers.
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rick d
climber
ol pueblo, az
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Don Wilson of totem pole fame (which is a sub peak of lembert dome)
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Spencer Lennard
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Feb 10, 2010 - 12:08am PT
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To elaborate on rick d's answer:
Don Wilson
 1952 FFA Open Book 5.9, Tahquitz, with Royal Robbins
1952 FA Super Pooper, Tahquitz, with Chuck Wilts, John & Ruth Mendenhall
early 1950s - developed the decimal rating system at Tahquitz (5.0 to 5.9) with Chuck Wilts and Royal Robbins
1953 2nd ascent of Sentinel North Face, with Royal Robbins, Jerry Gallwas (2 days)
1955 attempted Half Dome NW Face, with Jerry Gallwas, Royal Robbins, Warren Harding (reached 450' in 3 days)
3/1956 FA Spider Rock, with Mark Powell, Jerry Gallwas
6/1956 FA Lower Cathedral Rock East Buttress, with Mark Powell, Jerry Gallwas
12/1956 FA Kat Pinnacle NW Corner, with Mark Powell
1957 FA Finger Rock (aka Chimney Rock, now Bill Williams Memorial, 80' tower), with Mark Powell, William Feuerer (enroute to Totem Pole)
http://www.toddswain.com/index_Page494.htm
1957 FA Totem Pole (Monument Valley), with Mark Powell, Jerry Gallwas, William Feuerer
Bill Dolt photo (Powell, Gallwas, Wilson, Feuerer)
Powell, Wilson, Feuerer
from Don Lauria's thread Dolt Photos - First Ascent of the Totem Pole:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=727570
1961 He wrote a classic paper on insect flight and their central nervous system.
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/209/22/4411
6/23/1970 (age 36) He drowned in the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, trying to swim from an island to shore.
To Be Brave, (by Royal Robbins) p.208:
'His party's raft became trapped on an island, and Don attempted to swim across to the bank with a rope to effect a rescue.
He was swept downstream and held under by the rope until he drowned.
The moral of these three river stories, including my own, is that the rope, which to climbers means "safety", can be a very dangerous tool in moving water.'
He was a Professor of Biology at Stanford University at the time.
http://histsoc.stanford.edu/pdfmem/WilsonDM.pdf
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Feb 10, 2010 - 12:29am PT
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Boo & other pundits: I guided on the Middle Fork Salmon in 1972 with a California outfit (ARTA) and never heard of Don Wilson's drowning.
Since I recently read "To Be Brave," when I refer back to that: Royal doesn't give much more in details.
Any more details to the story after all these years?
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