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m_jones
Trad climber
Carson City, NV
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Mar 21, 2012 - 12:19pm PT
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Very cool - thank you for the reminder.
I remember reading the Murray quote a long time ago.
Kind of set the course for my climbing and as a result most of the cool stuff in my life.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2014 - 10:58pm PT
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Anchorite Bump...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 25, 2016 - 02:40pm PT
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Commitment for Christmas Bump...
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Dec 25, 2016 - 03:06pm PT
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A thread custom made for Ghost!!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 25, 2016 - 03:34pm PT
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Bill's name comes up frequently over a glass of the Ghostly stout.
Murray is a splendid writer and has the ability to put you into his situation while climbing. Old soul at play.
Mountaineering in Scotland is a fabulous read. I wish that he had written more.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Dec 25, 2016 - 04:06pm PT
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I had a dream that was set in Scottish climbing just last night!
Being infected by the Ghost and the ghost of Murray....
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 25, 2016 - 04:23pm PT
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The Spirit of Alpinism covered your pillow with spindrift. I love it!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 25, 2016 - 04:59pm PT
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Mountaineering in Scotland is a fabulous read. I wish that he had written more.
He did. He was a writer by profession. As a very young man he trained for a career in banking, but from 1945, when he was released from a WWII prison camp, until his death fifty years later, he made his living as a writer.
In addition to Mountaineering in Scotland and Undiscovered Scotland (which is basically Part II of (M in S), he wrote a variety of guidebooks. But he also wrote history and fiction, and, as someone mentioned upthread, an autobiography entitled The Evidence of Things Not Seen.
The mountaineering books and the autobiography are great. His biography of Rob Roy MacGregor is... Well, I'm part way through it, and learning a whole lot about 17th Century Scotland, but it's heavy going. Serious historical writing as opposed to a celebrity bio.
Haven't found any of his fiction available yet.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2018 - 12:50pm PT
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The mystery endures...bump.
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