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Layton Kor, one of America’s greatest and most revered climbers of all time, has died.

Kor, born in Minnesota in 1938, came from a small town and was a bricklayer by trade. He rose to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960 by establishing a litany of first ascents that included...

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In reply to UKC News:

Ach, that's not good. 74 is no age. Probably not that famous over here, but a lot of people will have done one of his routes (most of them probably, like me, the Kor-Ingalls on Castleton Tower).

I thought Jehovah's Witnesses didn't approve of kidney transplants, by the way, or is that some other bunch of loons?

jcm

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"The Kor traverse" - Few eponymous climbing passages can be as famous or loaded with such foreboding....

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Legend!

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Indeed a legend.

I was gripped out of my mind on the Kor roof of the South Face of Washington Column. A great memorial to the man in the heart of Yosemite

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May the legend RIP.

In reply to johncoxmysteriously:

Maybe the Christian Science bunch?

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Well they refuse blood transfusions, and I guess a kidney transplant operation might just need a transfusion at some stage?