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Ed Bannister
Mountain climber
Riverside, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 1, 2009 - 07:02pm PT
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What would you risk to help your partner?
The thread about Yaniro brought this to mind...
Tony and Brett Maurer had been working on a route and at dusk had packed up gear Brett had walked off the ramp at the bottom of the climb in the Needles. Before traversing off the ramp he peed on the rock past the gear. as he reached for his pack and cord, Brett was back to help carry the rest, but Brett strode right past!
Tony grabbed,
and caught Brett, but the force was too great, rather than let his partner go down the ramp, Tony Yaniro held on for every chance to possibly save his partner from falling a long way down the ramp, and was pulled off too.
They tumbled, rolled, slid, over granite, went over a dry waterfall,
and slid to a stop in dirt and bushes some 180 feet below.
100 stitches between them including Brett's thumb brushing/yelling event.
Tony would do anything for his partners well being, he is not just, a nice guy. He is everything you would hope for in a partner.
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Brian Hench
Trad climber
Laguna Beach, CA
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If you asked Tony if he thought about it, I'd guarantee you he'd say, "I didn't think about it, I just reacted".
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Troy Mayer grabbed my harness just before I rapped off the end of our rope while rapping into the huge chimmney at Williamson. I had a huge pack filled with bolting stuff and extra ropes and I ended up upside down and losing control. Troy grabbed me and pulled me onto the ledge just in time. Thanks Troy.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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HOLY!!!
Tony may be a guardian angel!
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Nohea
Trad climber
Sunny Aiea,Hi
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7 pitches or so up Zodiac and we were low on beer, Homeboy rapped down, hiked into town, got an extra case and jumared back up to beer us just in time. Somehow we never made it all the way on that trip.
Aloha,
wil
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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haul in the fixins for breakfast at the Haufbrau...
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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This is a great thread subject! And Pate that was very cool.
My partners have been many of course; it’s been a crazy bunch of decades. Some women, some men. Mostly men. I am thinking that within all these fascinating experiences the highest gifts that came were friendship or love, and gratefully, tolerance. Other than this, it was climbing and getting through our experience in the strongest manner possible and taking care of each other wholly.
When you feel it is less, it is not worth climbing and should retreat. And it gets to be less often enough that you should watch out. This is not a safe or worthwhile undertaking apparently. Why be there?
When partners work out, it is incredibly satisfying and makes you want to keep climbing, it seems forever.
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Robb
Social climber
The Greeley Triangle
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We kept each other alive on many a call long after we quit the rocks. RIP BW.
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