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1930s Climbing Tools and Techniques

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 Deuce4 19 Mar 2022

Mechanical Advantage series on Substack:

Link:  https://www.bigwallgear.com/p/1930s-climbing-tools-europe-partc?s=w

 wbo2 19 Mar 2022
In reply to Deuce4:  Tremendous stuff John , and thank you for assembling this and linking to it.  It appears top level technique in 'yo olden days' was a bit more sophisticated than many imagine

I hope you're doing some climbing by the way 

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 Bob Kemp 19 Mar 2022
In reply to Deuce4:

This is great - good to see that someone is documenting and curating all this material. Many more fascinating pieces linked at the bottom of the page too. 

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 Sean Kelly 19 Mar 2022
In reply to Deuce4:

Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting. Note the shorter axes for the Eiger attempts.

OP Deuce4 19 Mar 2022
In reply to Sean Kelly:

thanks to all for comments!  Actually, I pulled that Eiger gear photo, which I had thrown in at the very end and initially captioned incorrectly, as it was actually of course gear from the 1950s.

here: https://cdn2.apstatic.com/forum/269833.jpg

 Myfyr Tomos 19 Mar 2022
In reply to Deuce4:

Thanks for that John, a wonderful, informative piece.

 Sean Kelly 20 Mar 2022
In reply to Deuce4:

Fake news again!!

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