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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Mar 16, 2014 - 01:00am PT
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Thanks Deeg. Great piece from NYT! Really helped clear up some of the errors about Charlie's basics. Imagine, he got to visit Tristan da Cunha even.
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Mar 16, 2014 - 11:53am PT
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Interesting to learn that Charlie's mother authored the wonderful children's book, Miss Rumphius.
I must have read that book to my kids a hundred times and it was a perennial favorite. It is about a woman who wanted to accomplish three things in her life: travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful. The last she does by planting Lupens throughout the countryside in Maine.
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 16, 2014 - 12:04pm PT
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When Charlie finished Asgard he mailed me a letter describing his ascent and epic descent and getting back to the Eskimo village.
The NYT article says he hiked .
The letter Charlie wrote me he told me how his feet got frozen and had to crawl a good portion of the way out of there back to civilization.
He told me how he is staying with local Eskimos because he can't walk and they are teaching him the fine art of sea kayaking.
The stuff he was learning from those Eskimos would be instrumental later in his adventures in the Drake passage and building the sea tomato for Ned Gillette.
When I saw Charlie after he came back from building the sea tomato for Gillette he was really pissed off at Gillette for fuking him over.
I'm not going to into that here.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Mar 27, 2014 - 08:02am PT
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There are several legendary climbers who have died in the last year, who in their lifetime, made significant advances in our sport. The accomplishments of Charlie, and my close friend John Ewbank, have appeared in numerous articles, on an international scale.
I regret that Charlie and John are not around to read the fine tributes directed towards them. Even thou Charlie and John were both very humble
individuals, I'm sure they would have appreciated the recognition.
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Anne-Marie Rizzi
climber
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Apr 14, 2014 - 09:54pm PT
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So, I just opened a Black Butte Porter, my current favorite beer.
And I started singing (to the melody of Hallelujah chorus), "Charlie Porter, Charlie Porter, Charlie Porter, Charlie Porter, Charlie Porter-uh. This was a song that Jim Erickson, Art Higbee, and David 'the kid" Brashears would sing whenever Charlie came into the Lodge bar. I thought it was hilarious.
And all these years later I still remember it. What a scene...
Anne-Marie
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Apr 14, 2014 - 10:53pm PT
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Very nice eulogy for Charlie by a sailing adventurer who crossed tacks with him several times in Patagonia and the Southern Ocean. In the Alpinist I got yesterday.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 14, 2014 - 11:46pm PT
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Bump for Charlie Porter song! Way fun!
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Apr 15, 2014 - 01:04am PT
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Missed this thread the first time around. Charlie had a strong influence on my climbing and why most of it has been free roped soloing. Pretty much pegged the whole self-contained-on-rock-free-of-external-dependencies thing. Had hoped to get down to meet him some day and more than a bit sad that's no longer possible. A life lived on his own terms for sure.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Apr 15, 2014 - 07:36am PT
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Mr. Porter was one of my heros.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Apr 15, 2014 - 12:04pm PT
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Great story Anne-Marie, but Breashears is no longer the Kloeberdanz Kid. I saw him a couple years ago. He is documenting climate change among other things.
Saw Jim at the Hersey memorial, but where is Art?
I really don't think they make 'em like Charlie Porter any more.
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Blakey
Trad climber
Sierra Vista
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May 27, 2014 - 03:06am PT
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10856692/Charlie-Porter-obituary.html
An obit for CP has been published in one of the UK's broadsheets. Remember it is written for the non climbing public.
The photo looks like the Weasel Valley. I bumped into him a few miles North as he was shuttling loads. It was piss wet, I recall he was wearing that yellow cagoul that's in the top of his pack.
Regards,
Steve
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