Your Favorite Oldschool Legends

Mark Wilford and Ken Duncan. Years and years ahead of their time.
Breashears and Steve Mammen. Krystal Klyr was an extremely bold climb in the 70's.
Chris Reveley, the master of RMNP.
Alec Sharp, he single handedly changed the Boulder scene.
Steve Komito. The father figure to a generation of Estes Park climbers and one helluva nice guy.
Alex Lowe. The most gifted climber any of us had ever seen.
Do not leave out our own Malcolm Daly. In the 70's he had all his fingers and both feet and was a major force.

Todd Bibler

Patrick Edlinger and Patrick Berhault of course, as well as Pierre Tardivel for skiing. For modern legends Jeff Mercier and Adam Ondra

TK421 wrote: Todd Bibler

TK421, why aren’t you at your post?

Again this was listed as a “favorite” climber legend thread. Not necessarily a talent list. Many regional or country local mediocre names thrown around.

Gerberding 

I would also add Ed Webster to my list. Some of my favorite routes were FA’d by him: Checkerboard, Escape, Scenic (variation), Sundial Dihedral, Primrose ...

Norman Clyde

Harvey T. Carter!

Didn't see Anatoli Boukreev name mentioned, he was a bit of a badass himself.  

F r i t z wrote: I would also add Ed Webster to my list. Some of my favorite routes were FA’d by him: Checkerboard, Escape, Scenic (variation), Sundial Dihedral, Primrose ...

Ed is the man. FA's all over the world, supercrack with hexes, and tons of credit for the new route up Everest with no O's, but it is really his FFA on the great corner of Wheeler Mountain in Vermont that makes him a legend

that thing was so much more fun when both pins were in place.. 

Alex Macintyre

Big John Dunne

The "Bird" at J Tree.  He could do Gun Smoke back and forth, upside down, and backwards.  I was jaw dropping to watch, though seems that was all he did, none the less...super impressive.

Just adding the Conns again because they aren't mentioned on this thread enough. They put up a ton of routes and most, if not all, of their routes are accessable to the weekend warrior. 

Joey Chicharrones wrote: I would love to have shared a cup (that I dug out of the trash for free refills) of McDonald's coffee with Fred Beckey.

Fred came to speak at the gear shop I worked at when he was 90. I was sent to pick him up at a Starbucks and drive him to the shop because the last place he spoke at called and said he almost got in a car accident leaving the parking lot.

I got dropped at the Starbucks where he was reading a copy of the American Alpine Journal. When I told him I was there to drive him, he refused to hand over the keys because the rental car was in his name not mine. I'll never forget seeing the back seat full of books,maps, CVS prescription bottles and McDonald's bags and burger wrappers.

Wildest 15 minute car ride of my life sitting shotgun with that man driving at age 90, I thought I was gonna to be the newspaper headline of the local climbing kid who died in a car accident with the legend on his way to give a slideshow. 

As a Northeasterner, Henry Barber is a legend, and I'm going with John Bouchard. Besides the epic story of the Black Dike, he did some very impressive stuff in the Alps. An innovator too, and provided a base for the Incredible Hugh Herr to work from. Kurt Winkler is the nicest badass you'll ever meet.