Your Favorite Oldschool Legends

Good thread Fritz (what happened to the Nuffer??) - some legends that I'm sure you would appreciate out there on the west slope - Jimmy Dunn...how has he not been mentioned yet??  Skip Guerin...master barefooter!  And Roger Briggs...classic everyman's crusher, pioneering bold free climbs in between teaching classes.

Aleister Crowley

Also Goran Kropp, for those that don't like those long approaches.

Walter Bonatti. Dougal Haston. Chris Bonington. Hudson Stuck.

The Stettner brothers were way ahead of their time, putting up cutting edge ascents throughout Colorado. Some other names too add:
Tom Hornbein, Dale Johnson, Harvey Carter, Ray Northcutt, Layton Kor, Huntley Ingalls, Bob Culp, Duncan Ferguson, Larry Dalke

Local version - John Strand. Looking at some of his friction stuff is terrifying

Pete Cleveland , great climber and interesting character!

Voytek Kurtyka, Lionel Terray, Alex Macintyre, Marko Prezelj, John Porter, Andy Parkins, John Bragg, Bonnie Prudden, Wanda Rutkiewicz, Randy Rackcliffe, Christophe Profit, Gaston Rebuffat,  and Hamish MacInnes. 

Casimiro Ferrari,  Carlo  Mauri,  Ricardo Cassin, and Wilo Welzenbach  did a lot of amazing climbing given the equipment of their day. All did routes that are still considered very worthy goals today.

Long Ranger wrote: Also Goran Kropp, for those that don't like those long approaches.

Goran had the extreme level of ethic you don't see anymore.

Unfortunately, he died on a 5.10a with a helmet on.
​http://www.traditionalmountaineering.org/News_GoranKropp.htm​​​

Oliver Perry Smith way ahead of his time an American climbing 510 in 1906 on the sandstone towers near Dresden Germany

I’m the first to mention Warren Fucking Harding? 

Tom Howard. Chasing that dudes lines throughout the southeast. Visionary crusher who climbed hard as hell.

I've always wondered, if Fritz had summited K2 in 1938, would oxygen have been used on Everest after the war? ...and even if used on Everest, would it have been used on peaks of K2's height or lower??  

It was asked about "Henry Barber: Apparently, on the first ascent of Drop Die or Fly in the Adirondacks, Henry ran out of rope and his belayer tied a second rope on for him to finish. I've always been confused by that one".

There were still a lot of 150 ft ropes around at the time, and some (from Europe) were actually 45meters, which is actually 147-148 ft.  

My early mentor: Jimmy Dunn

Walt Shipley, of course.

​Supertopo remembers Walt​​​

​Born Under a Bad Sign TR​​​

i was trying to find the brownies story. 

Any of the Lowes--Jeff, George, Alex.  Donini, who's still out there doing it.  Messner/Habeler.  Michael Kennedy.  The Everest Brits:  Doug Scott, Hamish MacInnes, Dougal Haston, Chris Bonington. Eric Shipton.  Lionel Terray. Hermann Buhl.  Gaston Rebuffat.  

That's a start.  

Being from the north east It was Fritz and then Ed Webster. everywhere you went you would find  route by one of those guys..   My current favorites are The Conns. Spend some time in the black hills and you can't help but be impressed by all the Conn routes.. 

Don Whillians and Joe Brown. Bob Murray, John Gill