Best climbing photo EVER!

steverett wrote: Models make terrible belayers, though. That carabiner isn't locked!

..and check this pic once again carefully. She has the harness on backasswards! The gear loops are in front, the leg straps come up the front instead of the back side....what kind of 'ad' is this for anyway? It looks like a small 'whiz kid' harness too.
But like do I care? I just wanted to see the pic reposted again.

Woodchuck ATC wrote: ..and check this pic once again carefully. She has the harness on backasswards! The gear loops are in front, the leg straps come up the front instead of the back side....what kind of 'ad' is this for anyway? It looks like a small 'whiz kid' harness too. But like do I care? I just wanted to see the pic reposted again.

Well I'll be damned. There IS a biner on there... and the harness IS backwards. How ever did I miss that?

clackmon wrote: depends...is he rap bolting a 5.2 in that pic?

Not quite sure what you mean here, but it sounds like dis-respect for a guy who made an early ascent of the North face of the Eiger (with Dougal Haston), the first ascent of the Painted Wall in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and the only person ever to have climbed Mt. Kenya AND Kilimanjaro in a day.

John Sherman climbed kenya and Kilimanjaro in a single day? How? they're a couple hundred km apart, unless he flew a helicopter or something.

Graham Johnson wrote:John Sherman climbed kenya and Kilimanjaro in a single day? How? they're a couple hundred km apart, unless he flew a helicopter or something.

Not Sherman, Rusty Baillie. No chopper but he did have some help expediting the border crossing.

Olaf Mitchell wrote:

ALL the Denny pics from that new huge Yosemite book are the classics of all times. Robbins and Chouinard sorting pins, bongs and 'biners out on tables before their big wall ascents is what this sport is all about.

Woodchuck ATC wrote: ALL the Denny pics from that new huge Yosemite book are the classics of all times. Robbins and Chouinard sorting pins, bongs and 'biners out on tables before their big wall ascents is what this sport is all about.

Haven't seen the book, but if that image is representative of the rest of the book it must be great. Will have to check it out.

Woodchuck ATC wrote: YES! Poster proudly framed and on my climbing art wall at home. The best representation of what we are all about.

If someone were to reproduce one of those posters I'd sure like to get one. or if someone wanted to scan it...

C Blank wrote: If someone were to reproduce one of those posters I'd sure like to get one. or if someone wanted to scan it...

It's from 1995, forget where I bought it back then from a catalog I'm sure( no internet shopping then). It is a classic. Can try to save the image here on post, and see if a digital blow up will work on it?

C Blank wrote: If someone were to reproduce one of those posters I'd sure like to get one. or if someone wanted to scan it...

Live your dream, impress your friends, and help out an American Climbing institution:

chesslerbooks.com/item/1297…

This photo has always captured the essence of mountaineering for me.

Monomaniac wrote: Live your dream, impress your friends, and help out an American Climbing institution: chesslerbooks.com/item/1297…

Chessler,,!! I should have remembered. Great place for lots of huge posters over the years.

Two photos that stand out in my memory are the ones of Dan Osman doing that flag move solo I think it was in the Needles

and that one of Doug Scott retreating off the Ogre.

Hornbein & Unsoeld heading off up W ridge of Sagarmatha/Everest, by Barry Bishop. The shot that was on the cover of "Everest: The West Ridge." I also love the Chouinard photo of Doug Tompkins on Hell's Lum, but this photo says "commitment" in a way that few can approach. National Geographic must own the copyright; I trust they won't try to string me up completely for this. Don't remember where I found it in digital.

Some great recent contributions. That Everest West Ridge photo always reminded me of a couple of guys getting ready to row across the Atlantic in a dingy. Just total commitment to such a huge unknown.

I've always liked this photo of Doug Scott crawling down the Ogre. It doesn't get anymore out there:

Jake Jones wrote: Not to mention, I'd like my belayer's harness to be on correctly, so that I'm not being belayed from the haul loop.

You realize that is not a haul loop though, correct?