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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 1, 2012 - 04:56pm PT
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Tom Patey is a very gifted writer and always a pleasure to find! This account of the 1958 British- Pakistani Forces Expedition appeared in The Mountain World 1960/61 published by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research and a great historical resource. Mike Banks wrote the official account 'Rakaposhi' and Tom crafted this one.
The plums were plentiful in the Karakoram in 1958. So, it turns out, were the apricots!
A major highpoint in Tom Patey's climbing exploits to be sure.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Great Patey story! A new one for me! Thanks Steve!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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"...six weeks of physical drudgery"; well, I guess that pretty well sums it
up for a lot of those trips. Good work, Steve! Is there any way to crank up
the contrast on your scanner? It would make it so much easier to read.
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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Thanks Steve. Patey is my favorite climbing writer. I re-read "One Mans Mountains" from cover to cover about every 5 years.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Great, great writer....another one who left us too soon.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 7, 2012 - 10:18pm PT
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I think about Patey often when I check my rappel system for a second time before leaning back.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Wow-Never saw that before. Patey is the real deal in satire and humor. Was that Dick Irvin that was with Swift?
And Tilman with his hopeless, hopeless." Classic !
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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One of my partners and I had memorized Patey's The Art Of Climbing Down Gracefully to such an extent that, when we were climbing, in the event a leader wanted to back off he no longer had to explain why but merely identify the number of the particular ploy.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 25, 2018 - 06:03pm PT
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Talking with Bob Swift soon bump...
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Don Paul
Social climber
Washington DC
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Dec 25, 2018 - 07:15pm PT
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The most photographed mountain in Pakistan, always has a huge ton of snow on it.
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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Dec 26, 2018 - 07:05am PT
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Steve:
Thanks for posting and bumping magnificent material!
The quality of the writing leads me to realize that the seductive allure of climbing for me stemmed from the great writing on the subject. Patey, Herzog, Harrier, Pratt, even Harding: the quality of their writing and tales set the hooks in my soul so I gave climbing a try.
You bring the gems to ST.
Thanks!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 29, 2018 - 10:15pm PT
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hey there, say... steve... ... wow, thanks for sharing, yet again...
more to go read, :)
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