Dumby Dave — Dave MacLeod and the dark art of Rhapsody

Mick Ryan

6th November, 2007

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"I studied him, sure I did, but I couldn't see that Dave MacLeod walked peculiarly or sat down carefully or anything else that might indicate he has bigger balls than the rest of us. When you first meet him, his overwhelming personality trait seems to be humility, complete with a fine British sense of self-deprecation."

writes Dougald MacDonald, Senior Contributing Editor at Climbing magazine (and Climbing's Online Editor) in a retrospective of Scotland's climbing phenomena, Dave MacLeod.

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Glyn Jones

6 Nov, 2007

Sorry but it just seems to be the written verbatum of E11. Claire says of this period, “You can tell [Dave’s] not really talking to you. He’s going through moves in his head, and he’s just kind of glazing over. Every waking moment, almost every sleeping moment. ... It takes over my life, as well as his.” Claire and Dave MacLeod first met when they went to see the same band in high school; he was 16, and she was 15. By early 2006, they had been together for a dozen years, married for five, but they had never faced a challenge like Rhapsody. Their tiny flat, says Claire, filled with “unbearable tension.” She was the breadwinner, commuting into Glasgow to a job she didn’t much like.

tony

6 Nov, 2007

Congratulations - you've managed to pick two very small sections which do repeat some of the elements of E11. Hardly surprising when it's such a milestone in his life. I thought it was a really good article. It's only a shame that none of the British mags manage anything remotely similar - why does it take an American mag to produce a decent profile of one of our best climbers?

tobyfk

6 Nov, 2007

Really? I thought the article covered a lot more than the film.

Tyler

6 Nov, 2007

Its one of my bug bears of Brtish climbing mags that they seem afraid to publish profiles of climbers. Presumably we, the UK climbing public, think its all about the climb than the climber. I've read few interesting profiles in British climbing media.

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