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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 19, 2011 - 06:25pm PT
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Browsing thru my climbing bookmarks I happened on a prior listing on Doug Scott, the great British mountaineer. I had met Scott several times thru Hennek as they were climbing partners for a couple of intense seasons back in the 70s. A perusal of his Bio will give one an idea of the incredibly prolific mountaineering life of a legendary British climber.
http://www.dougscottmountaineering.co.uk/lectures/biographical.html
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Gene
climber
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Jan 19, 2011 - 06:34pm PT
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Greg Child wrote a sketch of DS years ago. I'll try to find a link.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jan 19, 2011 - 06:36pm PT
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I hear he's a real swinging guy.
(Ogre joke)
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jan 19, 2011 - 06:49pm PT
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Doug harnessing up for a day of climbing at Swanage. I think it was in '91
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jan 19, 2011 - 07:04pm PT
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Stick to toe.
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Allen Hill
Social climber
CO.
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Jan 19, 2011 - 07:41pm PT
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Damn it Hank you beat me. Here's our Doug Scott a few years ago.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jan 19, 2011 - 09:17pm PT
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The last time I saw Doug was 1985 or 86. He gave a public talk at the University of Washington that was really pretty sad. It was a climbing travelogue of his incredible routes starting in the Alps then covering that amazing 10 years of ascents and attempts in the Himalaya. He took lots of photos starting early on and was talented with the camera so it was a great slide show. He is a really humble person, has a nice dry sense of humor and a is good at telling tales.
But, it seemed like for every photo with one of his mates in it the story was "[name here] was a great climber and someone you could trust your life with, etc... he was killed on [mountain name here]"
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Jan 19, 2011 - 10:10pm PT
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Sad, perhaps, but also realistic, to some extent.
What's the percentage of climbers who climb in the Himalaya and get the chop there? Seems like it's one in ten. That means if you go more than 5 times, you are beating the odds.
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Camster (Rhymes with Hamster)
Social climber
CO
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Jan 19, 2011 - 10:25pm PT
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Ken,
The percentage who climb in the Himalaya or the percentage who do gnarly stuff? Big diff.
Cammo
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jan 19, 2011 - 10:28pm PT
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If you look at the Bonington and Scott expeditions, starting 1960 and going through the 1990s, you'd probably find they lost nearly one man per expedition, out of six to twelve (Sherpas, climbers, etc). Certainly for the high & hard climbs from 1970 through the late 1980s.
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Cammo
Social climber
CO
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Jan 19, 2011 - 11:29pm PT
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His most prescient comment was: "when a climber becomes famous he's already done his best climbing."
So true.
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john hansen
climber
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Jan 19, 2011 - 11:52pm PT
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Many of Scott's and Bonington's partners perished on those cutting edge climbs.
I will check his book. Not to stir the pot to much, but I wonder how many Sherpa's were lost on those expedition's?
Probably mostly expedition members...
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