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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Made the cover and everything.
Must have been my 15 minutes. I gotta say it was a total surprise to me when
that came in the mail. As Jim's finding indicates, not a collector's item!
Yo Jim, are you gonna break the middle-marker story, or break some more perlon first?
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Jim E
climber
Mountain Road
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Gotta break more. I think all I found is that I have to break a lot more. Drops too, I suppose.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Chiloe: "Tarbuster has a fine sense of icony."
I con't take it any more!
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morphus
Mountain climber
Angleland
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great thread
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john hansen
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2008 - 09:35pm PT
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Some more pictures of pictures,,
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morphus
Mountain climber
Angleland
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Buhl's final steps..
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Dragon with Matches
climber
Bamboo Grove
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morphus: Kasparek on the Hinterstoisser Traverse?
The Chogolisa photo is chilling. I once attended a presentation by Kurt Diemburger and he was discussing this day. Maybe Buhl, who had written that he felt his sole mission in life was to climb, somehow knew that he had created his masterpiece or reached his pinnacle on NP. Seemed like such a careless mistake by a guy who was superhuman.
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SteveW
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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Tar, those icons were GREAT! The only real Bond. Shaken, not stirred.
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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I always liked.. Mr March 1986, is this pic to big? To funny Cosmic!
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nature
climber
Santa Fe, NM
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Dwayne, you look a little like Billy, or maybe The Bird. Locker, you look a little like....
LOCKER!
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Mimi
climber
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Largo in fine form.
Henneck, NA.
Charlie Fowler, Fang.
Bev Johnson, Nose.
Hugh Herr, Stage Fright.
Ron Kauk, ?
Skip Guerin, Wendego.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Fine collection, Mimi. The Hennek cover is one I haven't seen in a while. Herr climbing Stage Fright is a "Wow" image that comes to mind every time I walk past that wall. There never seems to be someone on it.
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Old EBs, old climber, new harness, new caulk bag, tight top-rope, new picture = truth
“…a powerful twist of the shoulders” = internet magic
Older than Royal! ouch!!!
Buzz
PS: Kirk, Raquel, Sean…proof that there is hope and goodness in the real world outside of climbing.
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72hw
Trad climber
Hollyweird, CA
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Now I know that this will not be considered 'iconic' by many of the old gaurd, but with all due respect, many of my generation and those coming up now find this cover shot of Sharma to be exactly that.
I know, I know, not in the Valley, not prior to 1990... still, this pic inspired me to find out more about how this guy came to be hanging upside down on his fingers and a whole new world of heroes, people like Bridwell, Robbins, Tobin and Long to name only a few, was revealed because of it!
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J. Werlin
climber
Cedaredge
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That's the stuff Cosmic!!!
72h-something: no excuses, Sharmas in.
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bachar
Gym climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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J. Werlin
climber
Cedaredge
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Tarbuster--
who is that traversing the Rippper? Bachar?
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bachar
Gym climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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No, that shot Tarbousier posted awhile back of the Ripper Traverse is John Long, replicating a classic shot of John Gill I think. In that one post the Tarbaby hit the two I had in mind, that Ripper shot and the one of Jardine on Separate Reality, which I think of as the definitive picture of that climb.
It's interesting that many of the iconic photos used to be magazine cover shots, but the modern mags cover up their photos with blurbs and copy, as if it was some version of People magazine, and the potential for iconic status vaporizes, it's just another advertising vehicle. When was the last time anyone cut up a climbing mag cover and framed it? The Sharma shot offered up by the new wave is great in the sense that the mag left a little dignity to the image.
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