Climbing Hall of Flame (was J-P Fine etc.)

[Teji Khurana]

speaking as someone who finds this flaming thread analogous to comparing
the relative climbing skills of apples and oranges i suggest that people
should use this space to nominate climbers, climbs, events et al. (humor
and crime not objected to) that you consider awesome to the "rec.climbing
hall of flame". thus instead of flaming one another you can simply and
democratically use this space to post your favourite.

for example my top ten list: (may be innacurate):

1) FA alps; The Ice Man. (something BC)
2) FA of Mt. Blanc (1890's, whymper?)
3) FA North Face Eiger (1937 kasparek, heckmair, volg, harrer)
4) establishment of important climbing devices, Nuts (1940's,? joe brown)
4.5) equally important climbing device invented, Nut extractor (his second)
5) FA El Cap
6) FA 8000 mt peak (Maurice Herzog)
7) FA Cenotaph Corner , possibily 1rst E1 (1960's JB)
8) First climber who needed to be rescued from an overenthusiastic knee jam
(Martin Boysen, 1970's)
9) Ascent of hardest (current)technical climb (Wolfgang Gluch, 1990's)
10) establishment of important climbing technique for untwisting a rope
i.e. Anal Flossing (Anon. 90's)

teji khurana

[Quang-Tuan Luong]

In article <Khurana-28...@134.174.159.180>, Khu...@HUSC3.harvard.edu (Teji Khurana) writes:

|> 2) FA of Mt. Blanc (1890's, whymper?)

The FA of Mt Blanc has indeed started alpinism. However, it was done
in 1784. Also, by 1890, I believe that Whymper had stopped climbing.

|> 6) FA 8000 mt peak (Maurice Herzog)

The Brits have reached higher elevations (but admitedly no summit)
in the 30's.

Tuan.