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Somehow missed this last Friday; new routing got in the way! A fascinating project.
Over the years, I've found it interesting to read short climbing stories to non-climbers. Obviously they can't really get the technicalities; what matters far more is that, seemingly very often, they get the spirit of what's happening. I guess, in a literary sense, that's an attempt to take climbing, 'from the inside, out...'
Perhaps Jonathan and David are approaching climbing, 'from the outside, in...' - and who better to guide them than the master magician himself?
An interesting observation from David: 'What has struck me is how climbers often talk of the beauty of particular climbs, which appears as a type of flow in the moment, this shares many characteristics with choreographic practice.'
And, as Mr Dawes is reputed to have observed, "Climbing is cheap therapy!"
Mick
P.S. Wasn't there a climbing performance troupe in Yorkshire in the 1990s entitled E5 6b? And didn't a hold break, so that it had to be renamed E5 6c??
Johnny Dawes' historic first ascent of The Indian Face E9 6c in October 1986 was widely regarded as a new benchmark in climbing and subsequent ascents have been duly captured by filmmakers and photographers alike. This November, however, his ascent and the line itself will be enacted in a different, more theatrical medium: enter stage left, Johnny Dawes.
