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Mountain climber
there and back again
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Hightraverse,
Not a Dead Head I gather! I am glad that you relate to the other ones. 4 out of 5 ain't bad.
Postum up.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Imogen was a pioneer in the art of nude photography in an era when such exposures were taboo.
Imogen's nephew Rym, was a classmate of mine at San Jose State and lived in my guesthouse for years in Santa Cruz. I deeply regret passing up the opportunity to visit her in San Francisco on numerous occasions with him. Her son Gryf was a talented architect and a joy to associate with.
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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The imogen and twinka shot was in Yosemite. the place where all good things happen and dreams come true.
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Baggins
Boulder climber
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The photo of MM Andy Warhol used for his pop art images:
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go-B
climber
Habakkuk 3:19 Sozo
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Cough please...
TSA airport security!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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A personal favorite on the climbing side...
Our own Dennis Hennek looking stud high on the NA Wall! Royal Robbins photo.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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What a wonderful way to spend a Sunday morning. Funny, moving, heart-breaking, inspiring, and uplifting... the whole gamut. This is my second full time through these and many of these I've contemplated scores of times in the past. Never will tire...
This one has always resonated with me:
And that made me think of this Eisenstadt classic that I don't think we've yet seen:
[Edit]: Doht!!! It's been posted at least twice before already and was the second post in the thread! I plead the three young kids on Easter morning defense! Can't use the no coffee defense... Already starting cup #3!
Cheers all!
Eric
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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And, Stevie Grossman, that was the second ascent of the N.A. too and Dennis was a mere child then. Quite something. Lauria of course even by then was seventy.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Some Nordic "existentialists"
Søren Kierkegaard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard
Henrik Ibsen
August Strindberg
Peter Wessel Zapffe (climber and existentialist)
http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/The_Last_Messiah
"Zapffe' s mountain" - Stetind
"Det begynder at bli et brændende spørsmaal, om naturens sande venner gjør klokt i at berette om sine fund. Ikke bare risikerer de, næste gang de søker fred og fornyelse hos sine gamle idyller, at finde disse besat med uværdige, som letvinte transportmidler har bragt derut i tætte stim, ledet av deres egen naivt-filantropiske veiledning. Paa jorden ligger søppelen efter dem som skavler av raattenskap og i luften kjæmper naturbeundrernes egen ulyd med hermetisk musik. Ære være folkets uskyldige glæder, til folket hører vi all, og grænser skal ikke skille mellem menneskene. Det er i marken grænserne skal trækkes, det er der man nu maa begynde at bygge taushetens mur om de værdier, som dør naar de blir grepet med vold og som utfolder sine dypeste undere bare i den stille tilbedelsens time. -Men farligere endnu er hyænerne som veier profit - som laller med lyriske tunger og kalkulerer med kalde, graadige øine. Hvad der levende falder i deres klør, det korsfæster de in effigie paa sine skrikende plakater, det vrænger de ut og ind i brosjyrenes standardiserte begeistring. Livet river de ut av sine umælende ofre og sælger liket i smaatt. Bevar os, himmel, fra projekternes raseri."
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Mountain climber
there and back again
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I can't believe this one has not been posted:
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 10, 2012 - 04:30pm PT
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 10, 2012 - 04:38pm PT
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The last empress
"Soong May-ling was born in Shanghai in 1898, the youngest of three sisters. The girls were educated in the U.S. Ai-ling married the financier H.H. Kung; Ching-ling's husband was Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Republic of China; and May-ling in 1927 wed Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the man who would soon unify a fractious China but ended up losing the country to the Communists and decamping to Taiwan in 1949. The usual rap on the sisters is that Ai-ling loved money, Ching-ling loved China and May-ling loved power.
In 1937, when Chiang Kai-shek's influence as the leader of China's Nationalist government was at its peak, Life magazine called Madame the "most powerful woman in the world." Liberty magazine described her as "the real brains and boss of the Chinese government." Ernest Hemingway, who had lunch with her in 1941 in the wartime capital Chongqing, called her the "empress" of China.
Madame had a ruthless streak, and Ms. Pakula describes how she managed to "compartmentalize" her mind, overlooking facts that she would prefer not to face when they stood in the way of a goal. In the case of her marriage, she, a staunch Methodist, had to convince herself (and her mother) that Chiang, who already had two wives when they met in 1926, was free to marry her. (Chiang obliged by sending his second wife to America and denying the validity of his first marriage.) During their life together, she overlooked the generalissimo's numerous faults as a military and political leader, such as his preference for fighting the Communists instead of the invading Japanese and his tendency to ignore the suffering of the Chinese people, who ultimately revolted against him. She overlooked, too, the immense corruption of his Nationalist Party, whose fortunes were based in part on the opium trade.
Chiang Kai-shek’s government, increasingly besieged by China’s Communist Party as the 1940s went on, was rotting from within. Chiang Kai-shek was a ruthless, petty man and a dismal leader. As Theodore H. White and Annalee Jacoby observed, “The manners of the Kuomintang” — the Nationalist Party — “in public were perfect; its only faults were that its leadership was corrupt, its secret police merciless, its promises lies, and its daily diet the blood and tears of the people of China.”
Eleanor Roosevelt got a chilling glimpse of Mme. Chiang’s own dark side when Mrs. Roosevelt asked her how she would deal with a difficult labor leader like John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers. “She never said a word,” Ms. Roosevelt wrote, “but the beautiful, small hand came up and slid across her throat.”
"The Last Empress" offers examples of Madame's "near-hypnotic effect on men," including FDR's 1940 challenger for the presidency, Wendell Willkie, with whom Ms. Pakula believes she had an affair. Willkie's friend, Mike Cowles, reports that Madame once told him that if Willkie had won the presidency in 1944, then "he and I would rule the world. I would rule the Orient and Wendell would rule the West."
Ms. Pakula ducks a central question: Was she mainly interested in increasing her power and enriching her family's fortunes? Or did she, like her left-wing sister Ching-ling, love China and believe that the best way to show that love was to save her country from the evils of communism? Was she "God's masterpiece," as the family minister described her at the time of her death in 2003 at the age of 106? Or was she "the most evil woman to wield power" in the 20th century, as one Taipei paper put it? After 800 pages, "The Last Empress" doesn't say. Madame Chiang Kai-shek remains as enigmatic as ever."
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KP Ariza
climber
SCC
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Apr 10, 2012 - 05:52pm PT
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 11, 2012 - 03:57pm PT
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Raggare
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 11, 2012 - 04:00pm PT
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MotoGP
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 11, 2012 - 04:02pm PT
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