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Banquo
climber
Amerricka
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Update?
He was at the facelift last fall. I talked with him for awhile and he tried to sell me his books.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Haha
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Last place I saw Chuck was in the Valley. Last Sept.
Eviction? Yeah sure, whatever.......
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Here's a photo I took of Chongo soloing Eagle's Way, which I hotlinked from his website.
Chongo's website says the photo is "courtesy of Neil [SIC] Weiss" which I suppose is technically true, because Neal probably gave the copy of the photo I took to Chuck.
I was there with Neal when Chongo fed us after we topped out with no food or water.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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This is a copy of a photo I copied from a link to Chongo's webpage, downloaded to my computer, and uploaded to the ST, with proper attribution. What's fair is fair - no? Great photo BTW. Don't neglect to click to enlarge.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Chongo made an appearance on a Huber Brothers movie I recently watched on Netflix.
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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That's about the best photo of El Cap climbing I've seen.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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It's been a few years since I last saw Chongo. At the time he was in Sac writing for the homeless paper, driving a Benz, and was shacked up with some gal in a nice place.
Had lunch, talked about physics stuff, and his opinions on a few posters to this thread, surprisingly enough. At any rate, I'm sorry to hear he was at Facelift and I missed it, but I was in Africa at the time.
Lot of good in Chuck, lot of bad, just like all of us. But at least he's comfortable in his own skin - not many are.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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The Chuck E. Chongo I met at Facelife is one gentle teacher, whatever else he be.
I'd trust him with my chuckah or my kids or even my (name it, he's cool).
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Feb 5, 2014 - 10:13pm PT
all the stories
and even this thread
assume the reader knows way more than most of us do
is their any cliffnotes to this incident and its resolution?
It doesn't take an Einstein to know a Chongo
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