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Burns
Trad climber
Arlington, VA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 20, 2005 - 06:47pm PT
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So now that the Nose has gone Free in a day again, I thought that I'd pose the question: what, IYO, is the Proudest Send of 'Em All? The Nose? And what are the criteria? Difficulty? Fame? Reputation? Risk? Number of failed attempts?
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pc
Trad climber
Thousand Oaks, CA
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Oct 20, 2005 - 06:56pm PT
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Astroman Free Solo
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Oct 20, 2005 - 07:27pm PT
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Proudest send of a long free route:
 Salathe' Wall, Todd Skinner and Paul Piana, 1988. So revolutionary and ahead of its time that many people simply could not believe it.
Proudest send of a single pitch:
Overhaul, Tom Addison, 2003. More than 5 years of attempts. I know there are harder routes out there, but it takes something special to keep trying for so long. I got to belay on a couple of the attempts, so I can't claim to have a completely neutral perspective on it!
EDIT to add:
Proudest onsight:
Hourglass Left Side, Peter Haan, 1971
http://www.stanford.edu/~clint/yos/hourglass.htm
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Oct 20, 2005 - 07:56pm PT
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"Salathe' Wall, Todd Skinner and Paul Piana, 1988. So revolutionary and ahead of its time that many people simply could not believe it."
In this context what does "send" mean?
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the Fet
Trad climber
Loomis, CA
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Oct 20, 2005 - 07:56pm PT
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RNWFHD FA.
Edit: or maybe LA Chimney.
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salad
climber
San Diego
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Oct 20, 2005 - 07:58pm PT
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knockin up my wife this summer. im living proof that sperm thrives in BOOZE.
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ShaneR
Mountain climber
USA
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Oct 20, 2005 - 08:37pm PT
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Steve House's solo of K7 must be mentioned. Only 1 move of Aid on the massive SW 2500 meter face (1st ascent) and topping out at 6934 meters.
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NinjaChimp
climber
Davis, CA
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Oct 20, 2005 - 10:24pm PT
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How about Wolfgang Gullich's out and back ascent of Seperate Reality sans rope? Or his Waaaaay ahead of his time ascent of Action Direct (originaly rated 5.14a, now .14d).
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wildone
climber
right near the beach, boyeee (lord have mercy)
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Oct 20, 2005 - 11:11pm PT
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God, there's gotta be thousands of 'em...
right now, though, I've been totally tripping out on Michael Reardon's palisade traverse solo in 22 hours...
a lot of people don't like him, for good reasons, but I don't care about any of that. 22 hours? GNAR_BALL>
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Ksolem
Trad climber
LA, Ca
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Oct 20, 2005 - 11:41pm PT
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Interesting you mention Mike Reardon. You can like him or not (personally I do) but the plain fact is that he is doing things no one before him would have even considered. On rock, he is the real deal.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
THIS SPACE FOR RENT
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Oct 21, 2005 - 01:26am PT
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Proudest Send:
Richard Cilley on "The Living Conjuction"
Or-
Mike Paul on "Jaws"
Best I've ever seen.
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poop_tube
Trad climber
Irvine, CA
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Oct 21, 2005 - 01:47am PT
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North Face Matterhorn
Solo AND in the winter
....not human
WALTER BONATTI!
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poop_tube
Trad climber
Irvine, CA
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Oct 21, 2005 - 01:48am PT
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Or maybe Bonatti Pillar
Solo
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Oct 21, 2005 - 06:30am PT
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Wildone, what is the Palisade Traverse? Pitches, difficulty?
The Palisades were the place I learned alpinism. Cool place.
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KarlP
Social climber
Queensland, NorCal, Iceland
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Oct 21, 2005 - 08:26am PT
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Clint, tell us about Overhaul. Web searching hasn't turned up a good story for me.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Ca
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Oct 21, 2005 - 12:23pm PT
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Yabo on Spider Line, he knew he was gonna die but kept on going and made it. Too scary to watch.
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WBraun
climber
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Oct 21, 2005 - 01:06pm PT
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The devil to hell
So the arrow will always continue to meet the "Target"
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wildone
climber
right near the beach, boyeee (lord have mercy)
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Oct 21, 2005 - 01:11pm PT
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DPatrick- from this month's R&I.
He made the third and fastest ascent of the Palisades Traverse (VI 5.9) in 22 hours. The traverse is an eight mile granite ridgeline which ticks many peaks, six of which are over 14,000 ft. John Fischer and Jerry Adams made the first ascent in 1979 over 7 days after spending a week stocking the ridgeline with supplies. In june 2004, Scoot McCook and Adam Penney made an honest second ascent of the traverse taking 12 days after they spent a week caching supplies. By comparison, not only did reardon climb solo, but completely unassisted, carrying all his supplies with him.
He did the whole travese in cotton t shirt and jeans! (with a few warmer articles in his pack).
He didn't bring an ice axe, crampons or rope.
One thing I don't get though. I thought Peter Croft did the traverse a few years ago, and blazingly fast, yet, no mention of it?
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CanuckClimber
climber
Calgary, Ab
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Oct 21, 2005 - 01:18pm PT
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I believe Peter Croft did the Evolution Traverse, could be wrong though
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Dragon with Matches
climber
Bamboo Grove
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Oct 21, 2005 - 01:53pm PT
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Hermann Buhl digging deep and pushing on to the summit of Nanga Parba after reaching the false summit and seeing he was like a zillion miles from the true summit. Meanwhile his teammate was back at high camp with the food and Hermann's sweater.
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