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The “Bro’s” of Climbing
Gumby the White wrote: The brief mountaineering career of Aleister Crowley- the Great Beast 666 In 1905 Crowley led an expedition to Kanchenjunga. The attempt ended disastrously. It was possibly because of the ensuing storm of criticism that Crowley took no further part in active mountaineering after 1905, although he continued to comment on mountaineering affairs. Instead, he turned to a life in which he is said to have explored every avenue of debauchery and vice as a means of increasing his magical powers and advancing his status in the satanic hierarchy.Unnatural practices, such as eating human excrement and flesh and enjoying sexual communion with freaks of all shapes and sizes, drew from the public the opinion that he was “the wickedest man in the world”. Nevertheless, his crimes were few and undetected, and indeed his ‘wickedness’ seems somewhat pallid beside that of more conventional villains bent on material rather than spiritual plunder. Perhaps the worst that can be said of Crowley is that he took seriously the profusion of dilettante interests in the occult so common in fin-de-siècle London salons. It seems that the mainspring of his effort was a desire to discover the limits of his own nature and potentialities, rather than a desire for public notoriety or self-aggrandisement. It is possible that his mountaineering was similarly motivated. He sure does sound like instagram bro before such a thing existed |
Gumby the White wrote: Devin? |
Colonel Mustard wrote: Dad? |
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law |
amarius wrote: total 1980's flashback....wait..what...that Aleister Crowley??? I need to crank up some Ozzy in tribute now |
Gumby the White wrote: Bro? |
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Friend or bro? |
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Ok broseph. Was John long really an Abroham Lincoln or did he become Hans Brolo over time. He did start out as a gymnast right? Very un-dude. Don’t forget all of those in the century before in hobnails and hemp rope pushing the envelope in tweed fffing clothes. Plenty of bro’s to go round |
 John Turner, 1953. Peak District. Total bro |
 https://www.outsideonline.com/1909816/es-ist-mein-bruder This Reinhold Messner piece, written by Greg Child, has all the elements suggested by the OP and more ! |
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Ok great. Now that we have established all of the old "bros" or at least most of them, who are the CURRENT "bros" of the climbing world? |
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I am definitely the biggest bro. I kick it around SoCal with my boombox on my shoulder, ripping ciggies and spraying down all the cute shirtless dudes climbing at the crag. Bro moves from a bro, ya know? |
master gumby wrote: I am definitely the biggest bro. I kick it around SoCal with my boombox on my shoulder, ripping ciggies and spraying down all the cute shirtless dudes climbing at the crag. Bro moves from a bro, ya know? This master gumby impersonator sounds homophobic. |
master gumby wrote: I am definitely the biggest bro. I kick it around SoCal with my boombox on my shoulder, ripping ciggies and spraying down all the cute shirtless dudes climbing at the crag. Bro moves from a bro, ya know? Are you implying that the real masta gumby is a bro... While I am flattered that you would recreate my old account, ticks and all, your impersonation slick is a 2/10. Ciggies? really? we all know it should be spliffs. |
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Gumby the White wrote: Ok great. Now that we have established all of the old "bros" or at least most of them, who are the CURRENT "bros" of the climbing world? Hard to think of any but I would say Thomas and Alex Huber. just seem like total hessian metal heads in my mind |
master gumby wrote: I am definitely the biggest bro. I kick it around SoCal with my boombox on my shoulder, ripping ciggies and spraying down all the cute shirtless dudes climbing at the crag. Bro moves from a bro, ya know? (Blush) |
Kief Manning wrote: Totally nothing wrong with that, my Bro.  |
