walter bonatti
reinhold messner
ueli steck
lynn hill
chris sharma
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walter bonatti
reinhold messner
ueli steck
lynn hill
chris sharma
.
I found it hard to but Reinhold's "all 14 8000m peaks" down. Some intense stories in there. Jam packed action crammed into one book. Rock moves bare handed above 25000 ft with fingers sticking to rock, solo climbing out of crevasses after falling , on and on. Quick read
https://www.amazon.ca/All-14-Eight-t.../dp/1861262949
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James Litz.
drop sharma
add honnold
.
Can't have messner without becky
Alex Lowe
That guy was a fucking monster.
Conrad.
Catherine Destivelle
If we are listing dead people too, then...
Andreas Heckmair
Ludwig Vörg
Heinrich Harrer
Fritz Kasparek
...for their first ascent of the Eiger's North Face.
Hermann Buhl
My old climbing partner Batso.(It's a short story and not nearly as interesting as you would think.)
Willo Welzenbach
Terray, Lachenal, and Herzog.
How has Jeff Lowe not been listed? Guy was a pioneer.
Rock Stars
Bachar
Yablonski
Bridwell
Chouinard
Robbins
House
Twight
Rod “the bod” Johnson
Potter. I've met a few of these gods/goddesses, but he's the only one I actually called a friend. Still think about him quite often. RIP Dean.
Conrad
Ondra is greatness in real time.
Fritz, for so many reasons, but he would have been the first person to get up K2 if he wasn't a team player. His rock line is still unclimbed to this day, I think.
Hugh Herr
wunsch just passed away, put him in the hall.
Fred Beckey is at least the patron saint of dirtbags.
Maybe not the biggest, boldest, strongest, or most gracious, but definitely the most persistent.
There are some good stories about Hugh Herr in Jeff Smoot's book "Hangdog Days."Quote:
Originally Posted by ml242
Which brings me to Todd Skinner, who also plays prominently in that book. After reading it, I'd put him in the hall.
^yeahman beat me to Skinner by minutes.
How about Jimmy Chin?
ETA: Briggs, though he’s skiing mostly.
Anatoli Boukreev
Reinhold
Twight
C Fox was bad to the bone.
The Lowe's
Ed Veisturs
All the Sherpas I've ever shared a hill with
Purja gets a mention
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...ks-in-6-months
Fun story:
One of my dad's best friends took Lynn Hill climbing for the first time. If I recall the story correctly, he was close friends with her older brother. They took her out to Mount Roubidoux and she showed them up on this 5.9 they'd been working on. IIRC, she was a gymnast and took to climbing like a duck to water.
My girl with Conrad, about an hour ago at the Mount Baker Theatre
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How did we make it to page 2 without Tommy Caldwell being mentioned?