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Watermann2
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 13, 2015 - 11:53pm PT
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Pete Boardman and Joe Tasker DREAMING.
Greetings to all, I found a wonderful article on an impossible dialogue between these two Great climbers, and some place in this forum, hoping to please.
I'm sorry for the translation, perhaps those who understand the language Italian, would appreciate it better I'm sorry not to translate better.
Many greetings.
01/09/2015 Ivo Ferrari
Free dream Ivo Ferrari on an "impossible" dialogue between two great mountaineers: Joe Tasker and Peter Boardman, disappeared in 1982 during an attempted first ascent of the NE ridge of 'Everest. That is how they have changed, if changed, mountaineering and mountain climbers.
"Pete, look ... What a strange way to do mountain climbing, and also ensure that we did it, but in a different way now ... look?"
"Joe, is not so different, have different material, lightweight, practical but the mountains have not changed, quiet when the circles quiet difficult when you want them to be. Of course then, the" unexpected "were, are and there will always be "
"... But do not you think they run too fast, watch them well, and they all tell everyone what they do. In our time, few were told, and even less"
"Joe, you're a geek, you have always been, times have changed, now it works well, but think about it, you remember, when returning from the West, from the fantastic adventure that had pressed for good, we were proud to tell, to speak, to write about those wonderful days, full of hardships, fears and feelings ... "
"Well, it will be! But, it all seems much more strange. I see samples mixed with" false "samples, I see heads that follow unwritten rules and people that shatters at will. I think that in our times ... well, we were different! "
"Joe, you're a hard head, but I've always loved you because you were so (over there) and even up here you've changed. Rather, tell me, what do you think if we asked permission to return to each other, maybe we can finish what we interrupted ! "
"That was Ridge infinity, the two of us alone, I still remember that day, wind, cold and the fatigue that gets inside you and turns you off slowly, slowly. You know, I do not know if it's worth it, we were among the best , and now the best live almost everyone here! you see, that goes round and round is coming out what I was thinking about looking down at the bottom, that feeling that all do, and few are ... "
"Ugh Joe! You're almost paranoid, but what you're interested, let anyone who wants and how to have fun. I believe then that the chips are the" fake "written Mountains disappear like a felt-tip pen on a sheet of paper, always has been. Now they are definitely more prone to "chaos" and the ease of creating it, but believe me, everything passes by an examiner, and what comes out, is not discarded "
"You're right, Pete, s .... these are just the mental fruit that ... yes, ask permission and get back on the long ridge, I want to feel the chill, the song of the wind and figure out where we went wrong and if we were wrong! you say you will leave us? "
"I have always been good, in all these years of" honorable service "both we were what we were always, dreamers, thinkers, men stronger and ready, then He has always forgiven our lack of physical care, our long hair ... in the end, was the uniform of that time. Yes, we will leave! "
 The Ridge is there, of which we are in, absorbed, tired as then, one before the other. The wind does not let up, but we go headlong, stubborn and proud of it, we are mountaineers, climbers among the best ... Here's the thing, the end of the ridge that continues, but this time we go, we go over and between snow and risky reach the Top. Finally, after all these years, we have succeeded, we Cima ... -
"Pete, you are able to use the internet?"
"Why is Joe? What is now the internet .."
"... Pete, I would immediately communicate that ... we did it!"
"Mountaineering and mountaineers have not changed and I fear that will never change!"
Ivo Ferrari
http://www.planetmountain.com/News/shownews1.lasso?l=1&keyid=42406
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Blakey
Trad climber
Sierra Vista
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Jan 14, 2015 - 07:08am PT
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If perchance wherever Pete and Joe are has internet, and they haunt these forums (fat chance) then their souls will be laughing their socks off!
Steve
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Jan 14, 2015 - 08:54am PT
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Two of my heroes. Did you know that when they climbed the lower peak on Gauri Shankar, they stopped ten feet short of the summit after a difficult multi week climb, to honor local wishes not to tromp on the head of the godess believed to live there? The next guy to make it to the top, tromped all over it and even made rude comments about the goddess. The next week, a flood originating on the mountain killed a woman and severely injured another. The Sherpas of Rolwaling will always remember Peter and Joe fondly and the other guy - not so much.
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