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NEWS: John Bachar Memorial, July 27, 2009

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 UKC News 29 Jul 2009
[Tyrus Bachar, 4 kb]John Long writes at Supertopo.com

A great man such as John Bachar deserved exactly the send off (memorial) he got yesterday, Monday, July 27, 2009, at Mammoth Lakes, California. Friends drove prodigious distances and flew in from various western states to be present. As many commented, such a collection of American climbers in unlikely to ever reconvene.

On this difficult day, I was witness to a few miracles. I had struggled with accepting that my childhood friend and climbing partner, John Bachar, was really and truly gone.

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=48567

 TobyA 29 Jul 2009
In reply to UKC News: Having only recently got back from a few weeks holiday, last night I was flicking through the three copies of the Economist that had piled up in my post box. I was delighted and surprised to see that the July 16th obituary was for John Bachar, "The world's greatest free-climber, for whom grace was all" and it was all about why style and grace counts for more in climbing than getting to the top.

The link is here: http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14029915 I hope it is viewable to non-subscribers.

Just to add the context; the Economist is a weekly paper and only does one, full page obituary in each weekly edition. If I remember correctly, the weeks previously had been Michael Jackson and Robert McNamara, and the week that followed was Walter Cronkite. Esteemed company indeed John! RIP.
 london_huddy 29 Jul 2009
In reply to TobyA: Thanks Toby, good tip, I'd missed that.

 Tall Clare 29 Jul 2009
In reply to TobyA:

There was an interesting thread about that particular obituary here: http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=364148
 TobyA 29 Jul 2009
In reply to Tall Clare: Thanks Clare. I missed that when I was away on my hols. It is a measure of the man that he got really quite a number of high quality obits in the upper echelons of the mainstream media.
 Chris F 30 Jul 2009
Isn't there a John Bachar Memorial Boulder somewhere? Joshua Tree? Named a few years ago, well before his death.
 EddieBauer 31 Jul 2009
In reply to UKC News:

Some interview footage of JB, Long and Croft -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY1SealpQ4w&feature=related

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