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Inspired by his new line & some of the comments on the thread about him. I was wondering what are your Stevie Haston stories? I know there are more than a few of you out there who are bound to have some.
Me i met Stevie in Grand Montets in the Winter of 01/02 (i'm too young to have any earlier ones). He'd just broken a custom swallow tail snowboard that rossignol had made especially for him. So waiting at the bus stop he asked me & a mate for a fag. He couldn't get over he'd snapped it as he was only about 10 stone. After a while his wife showed up in her car, BMW M3 E30 evo for the petrol heads out there. He was quite agitated at this point. Told her to get out of the driving seat, got in drove over his snowboard. Got out again threw it in the backseat, muttering profanitties under his breadth all the way. Proceeded to get back in the drivers seat, zoomed away spinning the wheels with the car sideways pretty much the whole way till the car disappeared from view.
Me i met Stevie in Grand Montets in the Winter of 01/02 (i'm too young to have any earlier ones). He'd just broken a custom swallow tail snowboard that rossignol had made especially for him. So waiting at the bus stop he asked me & a mate for a fag. He couldn't get over he'd snapped it as he was only about 10 stone. After a while his wife showed up in her car, BMW M3 E30 evo for the petrol heads out there. He was quite agitated at this point. Told her to get out of the driving seat, got in drove over his snowboard. Got out again threw it in the backseat, muttering profanitties under his breadth all the way. Proceeded to get back in the drivers seat, zoomed away spinning the wheels with the car sideways pretty much the whole way till the car disappeared from view.
In reply to Frank4short: Is he 008?
In reply to Frank4short:
I remember Stevie telling me the story of taking his father climbing for the first time ever. I'm sure many people here must know it, because he told it quite often, it's just so good and very, very funny. The rough gist of it is that Stevie's father, in exactly the same tough, strong London mould as his son, has been hearing a bit too much about this climbing malarkey, and isn't convinced that's it's as difficult as Stevie makes it sound. So Stevie takes his father, who's never done a rock climb in his life, up to Almscliffe, and picks Western Front (E3, 5c, I think) as their very first route. Stevie climbs it deliberately quite slowly. He wants his father to appreciate how hard slightly overhang gritstone jamming is, but he doesn't want to make it look too easy in case his father finds it too much of a shock when he comes to try and second it. Anyhow, his father starts up remarkably strongly, gets about 10-15 feet up and then gets stuck. Stevie is shouting down advice about how to hand jam and fist jam. Then his father basically tells him to shut up, and proceeds to cruise to the top almost faster than Stevie can take the rope in. I don't know if his father ever did another rock climb after that.
I remember Stevie telling me the story of taking his father climbing for the first time ever. I'm sure many people here must know it, because he told it quite often, it's just so good and very, very funny. The rough gist of it is that Stevie's father, in exactly the same tough, strong London mould as his son, has been hearing a bit too much about this climbing malarkey, and isn't convinced that's it's as difficult as Stevie makes it sound. So Stevie takes his father, who's never done a rock climb in his life, up to Almscliffe, and picks Western Front (E3, 5c, I think) as their very first route. Stevie climbs it deliberately quite slowly. He wants his father to appreciate how hard slightly overhang gritstone jamming is, but he doesn't want to make it look too easy in case his father finds it too much of a shock when he comes to try and second it. Anyhow, his father starts up remarkably strongly, gets about 10-15 feet up and then gets stuck. Stevie is shouting down advice about how to hand jam and fist jam. Then his father basically tells him to shut up, and proceeds to cruise to the top almost faster than Stevie can take the rope in. I don't know if his father ever did another rock climb after that.
In reply to Frank4short:
I heard that he was at the cromlech and people had to force him not to solo right wall! he begrudgingly agreed and soloed left wall instead...
He had his baby on his back at the time!!
He was babysitting!!
I heard that he was at the cromlech and people had to force him not to solo right wall! he begrudgingly agreed and soloed left wall instead...
He had his baby on his back at the time!!
He was babysitting!!
In reply to maybe_si: if true, pathetic.
In reply to Dave Morrison:
no idea if this is ture, was told by a random old boy who was apparently there at the time
no idea if this is ture, was told by a random old boy who was apparently there at the time
In reply to Frank4short:
This supposedly happened to a mate (who has never met Stevie Haston)...
Phone rings.
Oceanics Mate: Hello.
Caller: Is that Mike?
Oceanics Mate: Yes, Who's that?
Caller: It's Stevie, Stevie Haston.
Oceanics Mate: Oh! What can I do for you Stevie?
Caller: Have you climbed The North Face of the Tour Ronde?
Oceanics Mate: Yes.
Caller: What did you think of it?
Oceanics Mate: I really enjoyed it, it's my favourite route in the alps.
Caller: I just skied it! (phone goes dead)
This supposedly happened to a mate (who has never met Stevie Haston)...
Phone rings.
Oceanics Mate: Hello.
Caller: Is that Mike?
Oceanics Mate: Yes, Who's that?
Caller: It's Stevie, Stevie Haston.
Oceanics Mate: Oh! What can I do for you Stevie?
Caller: Have you climbed The North Face of the Tour Ronde?
Oceanics Mate: Yes.
Caller: What did you think of it?
Oceanics Mate: I really enjoyed it, it's my favourite route in the alps.
Caller: I just skied it! (phone goes dead)
In reply to Frank4short:
I remember him having a fight with one of the Llanberis local hardmen/bullies who was about twice the size of Haston.
The local hardman (Lard for anybody who remembers him) came a very poor second.
I remember him having a fight with one of the Llanberis local hardmen/bullies who was about twice the size of Haston.
The local hardman (Lard for anybody who remembers him) came a very poor second.
In reply to Frank4short: Again not sure if it's true but it was told to me buy a guy I climbed with once in a pub so I feel its only fair to share.
Stevie and a bunch others were sharing digs in berris. one evening they had a pull up contest on a small edged door frame. The lads all maxed out at about 9 or 10 but Stevie did a lot worse.
all the lads then buggered of to the pub but Stevie refused and stayed behind - when they got back a few hours later they found him still hanging from the door frame fingers bleeding.
He did 20 and went to bed
(this was passed on to me a few years ago so the facts maybe a little if not alot incorrect)
Stevie and a bunch others were sharing digs in berris. one evening they had a pull up contest on a small edged door frame. The lads all maxed out at about 9 or 10 but Stevie did a lot worse.
all the lads then buggered of to the pub but Stevie refused and stayed behind - when they got back a few hours later they found him still hanging from the door frame fingers bleeding.
He did 20 and went to bed
(this was passed on to me a few years ago so the facts maybe a little if not alot incorrect)
In reply to mux: oh and before anyone asks ...no I didnt mean that he had hung in there for a few hours.
In reply to Mooncat:
From what I remember of that - Lard was a horrible character - a bully, who if memory serves tried to run down a popular and inoffensive climber in his car.
Stevie picked a fight with him at The Padarn which was where "the scene" drunk at the time - took him out into the car park and broke his leg. Stevie was the local hero after this.
He also used to have a relationship and live with a friend of mine - the stories from that are NOT for print Im afraid
From what I remember of that - Lard was a horrible character - a bully, who if memory serves tried to run down a popular and inoffensive climber in his car.
Stevie picked a fight with him at The Padarn which was where "the scene" drunk at the time - took him out into the car park and broke his leg. Stevie was the local hero after this.
He also used to have a relationship and live with a friend of mine - the stories from that are NOT for print Im afraid
In reply to Mooncat: Haha. I wonder what happened to Lard? I remember him running people down in his crappy Escort van. Didn't Malcolm Smith get hit by the Van of Dooooooooom?
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
Strange, I thought Stevie grew up in Malta?
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The rough gist of it is that Stevie's father, in exactly the same tough, strong London mould as his son, Strange, I thought Stevie grew up in Malta?
In reply to Al Evans:
I don't think so - perhaps you're getting him confused with Joe Simpson, who definitely grew up in Malta.
I don't think so - perhaps you're getting him confused with Joe Simpson, who definitely grew up in Malta.
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
I thought his Dad was originally from Edinburgh, and his Mum was Maltese.
Al, I think he spent significant parts of his childhood with his grandparents in Malta.
I thought his Dad was originally from Edinburgh, and his Mum was Maltese.
Al, I think he spent significant parts of his childhood with his grandparents in Malta.
In reply to mux:
i read somewhere that 1000 pull ups was part of a normal training day.....and that he walked out after a soloing fall in Cham with a broken shoulder.
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> He did 20 and went to bed
> He did 20 and went to bed
i read somewhere that 1000 pull ups was part of a normal training day.....and that he walked out after a soloing fall in Cham with a broken shoulder.
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
No Gordon. not confused, this is from the web
'Also there is the Medusa tower at San Blas Bay developed by Maltese born Steve Haston. Gozo is very small so travel between areas is no more than 15-20 minutes to get your fill of climbs.'
Plus I traditionally knew that Steve was from Malta, I think I may have even talked to himm about it, but as sais above in later life it may just have been visiting his grandparents, but I do think he spent a block of time there.
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> I don't think so - perhaps you're getting him confused with Joe Simpson, who definitely grew up in Malta.
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> I don't think so - perhaps you're getting him confused with Joe Simpson, who definitely grew up in Malta.
No Gordon. not confused, this is from the web
'Also there is the Medusa tower at San Blas Bay developed by Maltese born Steve Haston. Gozo is very small so travel between areas is no more than 15-20 minutes to get your fill of climbs.'
Plus I traditionally knew that Steve was from Malta, I think I may have even talked to himm about it, but as sais above in later life it may just have been visiting his grandparents, but I do think he spent a block of time there.
In reply to Morgan Woods:
I think i heard a first hand version of that story (or so the story teller claimed). In his version of events stevie couldn't do 5 let alone 10 one arm pull ups when he was probably the best climber in the room at the time. So when the others went to the pub he stayed there practising his one arm pull up.
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> i read somewhere that 1000 pull ups was part of a normal training day.....and that he walked out after a soloing fall in Cham with a broken shoulder.
I think i heard a first hand version of that story (or so the story teller claimed). In his version of events stevie couldn't do 5 let alone 10 one arm pull ups when he was probably the best climber in the room at the time. So when the others went to the pub he stayed there practising his one arm pull up.
In reply to Morgan Woods:
In the interview in this months Climber mag he says that he spent months doing 2000 pull ups a day and living on 700 calories daily in preparation for his recent 8c+... crazy!
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> i read somewhere that 1000 pull ups was part of a normal training day.....and that he walked out after a soloing fall in Cham with a broken shoulder.
In the interview in this months Climber mag he says that he spent months doing 2000 pull ups a day and living on 700 calories daily in preparation for his recent 8c+... crazy!
In reply to Frank4short: This man is my absolute hero! WOW!
In reply to Frank4short:
I met Stevie in Monte Carlo, we got drunk on vodka after winning a million dollars on the roulette, so just for a laugh we stole a ferrari and drove to the Zermatt and soloed the Matterhorn to the top and base jumped off, wow it was something else.
I met Stevie in Monte Carlo, we got drunk on vodka after winning a million dollars on the roulette, so just for a laugh we stole a ferrari and drove to the Zermatt and soloed the Matterhorn to the top and base jumped off, wow it was something else.
In reply to David Hooper:
That's my memory of it as well, from what I remember the whole thing came about when he tried to run Ben Pritchard over.
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> From what I remember of that - Lard was a horrible character - a bully, who if memory serves tried to run down a popular and inoffensive climber in his car.
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> From what I remember of that - Lard was a horrible character - a bully, who if memory serves tried to run down a popular and inoffensive climber in his car.
That's my memory of it as well, from what I remember the whole thing came about when he tried to run Ben Pritchard over.
In reply to Alex Mason:
Then you are very, very sad.
A typical internet forum sychophantic response. The man climbs well and trains hard so he must be a "nice bloke"
Haston, Whillans and many more hero worshipped, poorly behaved thugs.
Oh dear another ukc taboo broken
> (In reply to Frank4short) This man is my absolute hero! WOW!
Then you are very, very sad.
A typical internet forum sychophantic response. The man climbs well and trains hard so he must be a "nice bloke"
Haston, Whillans and many more hero worshipped, poorly behaved thugs.
Oh dear another ukc taboo broken
In reply to 3leggeddog:
No denying that just their intense character's flawed an all as they were/are have over the years created a number of amusing stories. Doesn't mean they weren't arseholes. From my brief meeting with Stevie & what i've seen of him in film i've no doubt the man is/was a shit but he still had his moments.
I don't think so, just no one has any interest in hearing about they time he cheated on their girlfriend, belittled someone, etc., etc. It's just not interesting which is why to the knowledgable observer there may appear to be a hint of rose tinted spectacles about them.
> A typical internet forum sychophantic response. The man climbs well and trains hard so he must be a "nice bloke"
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> Haston, Whillans and many more hero worshipped, poorly behaved thugs.
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> Haston, Whillans and many more hero worshipped, poorly behaved thugs.
No denying that just their intense character's flawed an all as they were/are have over the years created a number of amusing stories. Doesn't mean they weren't arseholes. From my brief meeting with Stevie & what i've seen of him in film i've no doubt the man is/was a shit but he still had his moments.
> Oh dear another ukc taboo broken
I don't think so, just no one has any interest in hearing about they time he cheated on their girlfriend, belittled someone, etc., etc. It's just not interesting which is why to the knowledgable observer there may appear to be a hint of rose tinted spectacles about them.
In reply to 3leggeddog:
That's nothing, apparently Dave Macleod said a bad word when his wife crashed the car. I won't be buying any more of his dvds, I can tell you that.
That's nothing, apparently Dave Macleod said a bad word when his wife crashed the car. I won't be buying any more of his dvds, I can tell you that.
I first met Steve in Chamonix at newyear 82/83....He was stinking! this was due to fact he never changed out of his newly aquired goretex thinsulate two piece suit, light blue if I remember right. (we stank too but hey you never can smell yourself). We soon found we had a lot in common with stevie and several beers were shared and he proceeded to tell us he was going to solo the North face of the Droites.
Couple of days later and we all met back in the bar nash. We felt great having climbed some steep couloir over the back of the Tacul and stevie was buzzing after running up the droite north face...It was great hearing his solo exploites and I found it particularly amusing when he got to the bit were he abseiled off the end of his ropes during the descent!! (Not suprizing after he gave us a few other details as to what he did on the summit)
Several more beers later he starts to tell us his next plan...."I'm going to solo a new line up on the Vert, reackon it'll be ED" "Fcuk sake" I said...Have fun and we'll see you later......
He did that route without incident and the rest is history...
Couple of days later and we all met back in the bar nash. We felt great having climbed some steep couloir over the back of the Tacul and stevie was buzzing after running up the droite north face...It was great hearing his solo exploites and I found it particularly amusing when he got to the bit were he abseiled off the end of his ropes during the descent!! (Not suprizing after he gave us a few other details as to what he did on the summit)
Several more beers later he starts to tell us his next plan...."I'm going to solo a new line up on the Vert, reackon it'll be ED" "Fcuk sake" I said...Have fun and we'll see you later......
He did that route without incident and the rest is history...
In reply to 3leggeddog:
You are absolutely wrong about Stevie, and are clearly basing your comments on sheer prejudice. He is not a thug in any way, shape or form, but a really nice guy who lives life absolutely to the full.
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> Then you are very, very sad.
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> A typical internet forum sychophantic response. The man climbs well and trains hard so he must be a "nice bloke"
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> Haston, Whillans and many more hero worshipped, poorly behaved thugs.
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> Oh dear another ukc taboo broken
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> Then you are very, very sad.
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> A typical internet forum sychophantic response. The man climbs well and trains hard so he must be a "nice bloke"
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> Haston, Whillans and many more hero worshipped, poorly behaved thugs.
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> Oh dear another ukc taboo broken
You are absolutely wrong about Stevie, and are clearly basing your comments on sheer prejudice. He is not a thug in any way, shape or form, but a really nice guy who lives life absolutely to the full.
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
Who breaks legs!
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> You are absolutely wrong about Stevie, and are clearly basing your comments on sheer prejudice. He is not a thug in any way, shape or form, but a really nice guy who lives life absolutely to the full.
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> You are absolutely wrong about Stevie, and are clearly basing your comments on sheer prejudice. He is not a thug in any way, shape or form, but a really nice guy who lives life absolutely to the full.
Who breaks legs!
In reply to 3leggeddog:
Well, the few times I've met him he's come across as a really nice guy. On one occasion, in a hotel in Llandudno, I was drinking in the bar with him until c. 4 am.
Well, the few times I've met him he's come across as a really nice guy. On one occasion, in a hotel in Llandudno, I was drinking in the bar with him until c. 4 am.
In reply to 3leggeddog:
My comments were not made particularly about Stevie, but the often less than deserved hero worship that is apparant on internet forums and in society as a whole.
I do not know stevie personally but he is a friend of friends, some of whom suffered beatings at the hands of lard. Tales of those and later days lead me to believe like all of us, he is less than perfect and certainly not deserving of the hero worship which prompted my reply.
My comments were not made particularly about Stevie, but the often less than deserved hero worship that is apparant on internet forums and in society as a whole.
I do not know stevie personally but he is a friend of friends, some of whom suffered beatings at the hands of lard. Tales of those and later days lead me to believe like all of us, he is less than perfect and certainly not deserving of the hero worship which prompted my reply.
In reply to 3leggeddog:
Im not actually, im mega, mega cool.
I never said he was a 'nice bloke' at any point.
I just observed from the comments that stevie is a guy who lives for the moment. Hes clearly very passionate and goes for it and does what he loves.
I dont interpret the story as him being a thug, infact exactly as i said a hero, breaking a bullys legs, Karmas messenger.
It wasnt your dogs leg he broke was it, is that why your bitter?
Im not actually, im mega, mega cool.
I never said he was a 'nice bloke' at any point.
I just observed from the comments that stevie is a guy who lives for the moment. Hes clearly very passionate and goes for it and does what he loves.
I dont interpret the story as him being a thug, infact exactly as i said a hero, breaking a bullys legs, Karmas messenger.
It wasnt your dogs leg he broke was it, is that why your bitter?
In reply to Mooncat:
So much bullshit on here ! The guy was a skinny t**t my mum would have decked him !!!!!!!!!!!
So much bullshit on here ! The guy was a skinny t**t my mum would have decked him !!!!!!!!!!!
In reply to mr mills: I take we're talking about the other bloke here? Haston is only tiny anyway.
In reply to Frank4short:
Yea the other guy, known him for years, all mouth no action, if Steve would not have t****ed him I would have.
Did everyone a favour, the guy was a t**t of the highest order !
Yea the other guy, known him for years, all mouth no action, if Steve would not have t****ed him I would have.
Did everyone a favour, the guy was a t**t of the highest order !
In reply to Frank4short: Forgive my ignorance, but who are we talking about? :/
In reply to BrettS:
Stevie Haston, he's a talented rock and ice and sports climber, from what i've read he can be childlike and sensitive, and outspoken and opinionated as well, i've never met him though.
Cheers
Tim
Stevie Haston, he's a talented rock and ice and sports climber, from what i've read he can be childlike and sensitive, and outspoken and opinionated as well, i've never met him though.
Cheers
Tim
In reply to Frank4short:
I know that he is good mates with a bloke I drove up to Scotland one time who ate a scotch egg and who felt very ill, we went back again a couple of years later drove through the funeral pyres and climbed zero gully for a day out !
I have heard 'the lard' now drives a BMW - how true that is I don't know ?
I know that he is good mates with a bloke I drove up to Scotland one time who ate a scotch egg and who felt very ill, we went back again a couple of years later drove through the funeral pyres and climbed zero gully for a day out !
I have heard 'the lard' now drives a BMW - how true that is I don't know ?
In reply to BrettS:It was Jim Perrin who said he was childlike by the way, something about him being 'like a strange and needy child'. I suppose that could help explain why he often need's to say he's the best. Though i'm probably waffling, not having met him.
Cheers
Tim
Cheers
Tim
In reply to Timmd:
That's not ment in a negative way about Stevie Haston by the way.
> (In reply to BrettS)It was Jim Perrin who said he was childlike by the way, something about him being 'like a strange and needy child'. I suppose that could help explain why he often need's to say he's the best. Though i'm probably waffling, not having met him.
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> Cheers
> Tim
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> Cheers
> Tim
That's not ment in a negative way about Stevie Haston by the way.
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