Royal Robbins had died
- Thread starter eric strt6
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just saw that.
I recently watched the documentary Valley Uprising on Netflix which explained how much of an influence he (and others) had on rock climbing in Yosemite.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3784160/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3784160/
i've seen that too. i thought it was a good film.
RURP
Chouinard, Robbins, Harding those guys were my heroes growing up
I spent most of the 80s and 90s climbing in Yosemite and working in the climbing industry as well as at the retail level. I met Royal once ( same for Warren Harding) but mostly I knew the next generation of climbers although I did hang out with Werner Braun, TM Herbert and Doug Robinson. Mostly I knew the SAR guys, Pete Takeda, Ron Kauk, Andrew Stevens and from the industry side hosting Hans Florrine's speed climbing slide shows. I miss climbing, my shoulders are shot, fingers are arthritic and I am not risking tearing the distal head of my biceps tendon in two again...old age sucks
I spent most of the 80s and 90s climbing in Yosemite and working in the climbing industry as well as at the retail level. I met Royal once ( same for Warren Harding) but mostly I knew the next generation of climbers although I did hang out with Werner Braun, TM Herbert and Doug Robinson. Mostly I knew the SAR guys, Pete Takeda, Ron Kauk, Andrew Stevens and from the industry side hosting Hans Florrine's speed climbing slide shows. I miss climbing, my shoulders are shot, fingers are arthritic and I am not risking tearing the distal head of my biceps tendon in two again...old age sucks