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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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I'm sorry to hear, he sounds like a really amazing gentleman.
its a funny thing, climbers (especially of earlier generations) have looked death in the eye a million times, it always feels like a soldier is laid to rest. A last great adventure...
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Grovehill
Trad climber
UK
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Sad news, I first met him over 40 years ago during the Eiger lecture tour.
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Wow, so sorry to hear this, I had some good fun times with Pete, first when I lived in the Tahoe City Trailer court in 1980, then in Tuolumne in the 80's when he was first hanging out with Terri, ...he was a good man all around. 7 years ago I got to work with him for a week on a foundation in Tahoe, he was a master of concrete work, and a pleasure to work with and learn from. He will be missed. Imagine climbing the Eiger in wool with the gear of that day!
RIP Pete Minks,
Peter
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Lacey
Social climber
Burns,Oregon
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Will miss you Peter......RIP.......:(
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Peter (Mayshow) Mayfield, Fritz , from the Band,*The Mutants ..and Peter Minks..
edit: Tobia, i think..because of family members reading this thread, my search to find Peter's former wife.. will now be fruitful..
ps.. please, post up the picture..
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Those aren't hats , those are flying saucers..Sorry to hear about Pete..Only met him a few times but get the impression he got the most out of life...RJ
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Tobia
Social climber
GA
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I met Minks at the same time Mr. Maysho did. He was the "straight man" in an unintentional comedy team along with Mike White (always an entertainer).
I have a picture (somewhere of him sitting at the picnic table behind the TMCC while Mike was entertaining me at the behest of Mr. Minks to eat his breakfast.
That seems like yesterday.
Nita, your search ends.
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Minks at a C4 reunion. We'll miss you. You're the only person I knew that could out-party the Canadians....
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, wank... thank you for sharing... i've posted before:
i'd never of these great legends, if you all didn't post on their
vast-experiences and life....
another thing:
it is really wonderful to see that no matter how old we-all get,
once we are filled with the 'great out doors' you never lose or
let go it, and it never lets go of us (meaning the tug to our spirits)...
my condolences to his family and loved ones, far and wide...
god bless...
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pneame
Trad climber
Tampa, FL
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Sad news indeed. A kind soul who gave me more laughs than I deserved. And rescued me from my own folly at least once....
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Wank
Ice climber
Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 8, 2012 - 04:02pm PT
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Sorry about the miss display Of Punk Roy in the thread, my eyes aren't what they used to be. Talked with so many old friends yesterday ,all feeling this one deeply. Minks had this way of turning the mundane into absolute adventure
truly bold and fearless , renowned for his Tales from the N A wall to Gasherbrum 4 , Thaley Sagar and and Pint of good Ale. I was with him when the news of Al Rouse came to him and it was one of the few time,s I saw Minks tear up. He was from a era of great British Alpine History and was contemporary to the Likes of Joe Brown ,Mo Anthoine ,Tasker and the Burgess twins and told us many stories of his mentor Don Whillans. As he was mine .
The deepest gratitude for having had him in my life . :-(
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LJM
climber
Liverpool
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Hi,
Just found this after a quick Google search.
Peter was my Uncle, although I never got to meet him (I'm in England). He passed away quite unexpectedly due to a blood clot i think, but had also very recently been diagnosed with cancer.
I'm enjoying reading some of the stories about him on here.
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Apparently, Minks was in a Reno hospital having a tumor removed from his bladder and died from a blood clot that let loose from one of his legs. He'd been urinating blood for months but didn't think it was serious enough to get checked out.
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R.H
climber
las vegas
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Condolences to the family - It was an honor to know and climb with and share beers over the years with Peter - he was one of the most hilarious people I have ever met - he will be missed.
Richard Harrison
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WBraun
climber
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He'd been urinating blood for months but didn't think it was serious enough to get checked out.
Damn, he was always a tuff hard core guy.
You rarely see guys like him anymore in this type of lifestyle we live in.
Old school.
Goodby Peter until we meet again .....
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captain chaos
climber
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I have to say I'm pretty shocked. I was just talking with Minksy Friday night, he was in the hospital and was talking about the next step, which were tests to see if the cancer spread, etc. He knew he was going to have to deal with some chemo sessions, but wasn't sure to what extent. Some time had passed since we last talked, so we spent over an hour catching up. He was his old self, cracking jokes, telling me stories about his boys which he's very proud of, and life in general. He did say something about his legs being swollen, he said they looked like elephant legs, but they had socks on them and he was on some medication? to help keep a blood clot from going to his heart. about 12 hours went by and I got the call that Minksy was gone... I felt like a bolt of lightening struck me and knocked me off my feet, it was completely unexpected.
Like everyone here, I have some great memories and times with our brother Minksy, he was a great person and character. We climbed the Muir together and had a great time, I'll never forget when he was holding the rope with his teeth (why I don't know) but the coil of rope took off without his noticing it, of course it came to the end which was in his mouth and in turn blew the bridge out of his mouth he just had put in a week earlier. I heard this tink, tink, tink go by and Minsky howling, when I got up to him I realized what the tinking was (his bridge) It was one of the funniest things I ever saw, I was laughing so hard I almost peed my pants, then I realized we still had a long ways to go as this happened on Mammoth, and it was already hard to understand him sometimes as it was, and now with no upper teeth, it was going to be nearly impossible. He eventually got over it and we finished the climb, but not without incident. We had a monster thunder and lightening storm hit us just below the summit roofs, Minksy was cleaning the pitch going off about all the metal on him while the lightening was blowing up all over the place... At first he wanted to bail on cleaning and just jug up to the station, but finally realized it wasn't going to change things, as the station had an even bigger pile of metal, and so he continued cleaning and began singing his old English war songs... or what ever they were, he used to sing them a lot when he got buzzed as well.
So here's to you Minksy, your were a good friend, great person, and good father. I'm sure your boys are as proud of you as you were of them... See you out in the perimeter, tu hermano- Craig
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Stewart Johnson
climber
lake forest
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a hardman indeed. i knew Peter for 25 years of tall tales at the tahoe city pubs. finally i said we have to go climbing.
i talked him into the lead with promises of free beer.
50 pounds overheavy, two different rock shoes and no achilles tendon on the left. with a torn rotator cuff right shoulder...
the fire was back in his eyes, he flashed the pitch.
now the pubs just wont be the same.
thanks for the great times Peter!
paul.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Cheers to Minksie. Sad news, another climber of that era when climbers were rare and real is gone. Only met the guy once or twice, 30 years ago, but he sure made an impression!
To paraphrase Stevie Haston, Don't Rest In Peace, wreak havoc!
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Not the best way to start the week with.
RIP Peter: you were and a still a great loveable fun guy to have known.
Some where around the office will get the slide and copied to post of you a few years back.
JT
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