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[illustratus]

Mountaineers ascending a steep rock face

by Georg Janny

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[tjkl895]

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[scooby-doo-exploration]

sylphenia - No dizziness

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[scotianostra]

Duncan Curdy MacSporran Haston was born on April 19th 1940.

Commonly known as Dougal, Haston was one of the finest climber Scotland has ever produced.

Haston was born in the parish of Currie on the West Side of Edinburgh in 1940 .Even with the war on Haston seemed destined to follow in the footsteps of countless others into a life of work in the mills and shops and on into obscurity. However, history and Everest would hold an entirely different destiny for Dougal.

Haston developed a taste for climbing while trekking about the Pentlands in Scotland. Rock climbing skills were acquired by clambering up railway and riverside walls around Currie. Already showing a mischievous streak, which would become darker later in life, Haston and friends would climb to the top of Currie Church and leave things, including women’s underwear, atop the flagpole!

He soon began rock and ice climbing and struck up a friendship with another climber, Robin Smith, who like so many others would die climbing. Smith died in 1962, 4 years before Haston gained fame for the first direct (bottom to top) ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in the Swiss alps. Though a broken rope would claim the life of American climbing great John Harlin during the climb, Haston would finish the ascent with a group of German climbers and name the route John Harlin Direct.

His run-up to a climb of Everest included the first climb of the South Face of Annapurna in 1970, and the first summit of Changabang in India in 1974. Along with fellow Briton Doug Scott, Haston summited Everest via a previously unclimbed route up the South West Face. Though forced to spend the night following their summit huddled in a hand-dug snow cave at the South Summit the two emerged unharmed by their experience. Later that same year Haston would participate in the first climb of the South West face of Mount McKinley in Alaska.

Haston was no angel, his exploits away from the climbing routes were as legendary as his feats of mountaineering. He led a life renowned for drinking, fighting, stealing and risky climbs which would culminate in a drunk-driving accident in which a person was killed, a conviction and prison time.

His career and life was cut short by an avalanche while skiing in the Alps in 1977. There is a plaque honouring him on a railway bridge in Currie where he was born and learned to climb.

There’s a great article in the Herald from 2001 focusing on his girlfriend Ariane Giobellina which must have been very hard for her………the article has a paywall on it since I last read it, but if you are clever there are ways round it, I myself use Tor Browser to get round them.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12245382.dougal-haston-had-a-legendary-love-of-wine-women-and-the-mountains-it-was-the-last-that-killed-him/

I also recommend the article below, which describes Haston as “the Mick Jagger of the Mountains”

https://www.adventure-journal.com/2020/12/historical-badass-climber-dougal-haston/

#scotland #scottish #history #edinburgh #adventurer #mountaineering #mountaineer

[danskjavlarna]

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Newsworthy: a collection of weird headlines and book titles.

#vintage headline #mountaineer #headline

[blackswaneuroparedux]

A lot of time, people who don’t climb mountains assume is about this great heroic sprint for the summit, and somehow this great ego-driven ambition. But actually it’s the reverse. It’s about supplication and sacrifice and humility, when you go to these mountains. It’s not so much a celebration of oneself but the eradication of one’s self-consciousness. And so on these walks you lose yourself, you become a vessel of energy in harmony hopefully with your environment. One thrives on enthusiasm, curiosity, humility.

Julian Sands

I was saddened to read that the dead remains of Julian Sands were finally found in the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles. I hadn’t realised how deeply immersed he really was in just wearing all weather anorak, a thermos flask of tea, and a laminated Ordinance Map before he set off on an arduous hike or a climb.

As great as a character actor Julian Sands was, he was also an accomplished mountaineer. He once described himself as happiest when “close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning”, climbed all around the world, including the Andes and Indonesia’s Puncak Jaya, the highest mountain on an island and the only place in the country where you can find snow. I know it’s an arduous climb having done it myself. It requires a weeks-long hike through remote jungle and some chasms which can only be crossed by Tyrolean traverse ziplines.

Julian Sands was on his way to completing the dream of most mountaineering aficionados: competing the Seven Summits. It’s a considerable undertaking in every way not just the obvious physical costs but also the average cost of completing all seven which can rack up to £150,000.

Sands had done five - Aconcagua, Puncak Jaya (Oceania), Mont Blanc (Europe), Vinson (Antarctica) and Kilimanjaro (Africa) - and had only had Denali (North America) and Everest (Asia) left.

Sands also took on the Weisshorn in the Swiss Alps. Now this is revealing as any experienced or passionate mountaineer would tell you. The nearby Matterhorn may be more famous, but many mountaineers consider the Weisshorn both more beautiful, with its symmetrical triangular pyramid shape and pure white slopes, and more challenging too, combining a long and serious route with delicate rock pitches and steep snow climbing. I know I do. It’s an incredible climb to experience which I did with some army veteran friends of mine.

Sands death is a tragedy as his passion for mountaineering was inspiring. I was nodding my head when I read that Sands once began a telephone interview by saying, “Right now I’m looking across the North Face of the Eiger towards the Jungfrau. Spectacular!” But then he rang the journalist back several hours later from a bivouac to impress upon him that, though he was climbing the Eiger, he was going up the easier Mittellegi Ridge rather than the feared North Face. “Mountain and climbing folk, and a small percentage of your readers, will know the difference.” Yes, I thought, Sands gets it. I bowled over by his humility and his honesty generously bound up with his joie de vivre. These are the values of real mountaineers in seeking to climb the mountains of the mind.

RIP Julian Sands (1958-2023).

#sands #julian sands #quote #actor #mountaineer #mountaineering #hiking #outdoors #nature #seven sumit challenge #weisshorn #death #obituary #tribute #climber #english

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Close ups under the cut~

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[poppins-me]

© Jean-Marc Rochette (Aile Froide, Altitude 3954/Casterman)

#illustration #art #drawing #painting #comics #mountain #mountaineer #alps #frenchalps

[taski-guru]

YCH commission for Lolla_Yeen, Stenu and Claid

So what did they find down there? I guess the answer is the same as the answer to what's in the mysterious briefcase in “Pulp Fiction”. It's up to your interpretation.

#traditional art #comission #fantasy #anthro #adventure #hyena #feline #canine #dragon #wolf #chimera #hybrid #elf #mountain #mountaineer #light #traveler #comic page #journey

[rupertbbare]

Mountaineer by truecatfood

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[noritama0301]

中華料理 大進亭＠西八王子 2023/10　

回鍋肉定食と唐揚げ単品

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[wastehound-voof]

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[ladyt777]

#Waypoints #Scottish #journey #book #author #memoir #trekking #hiking #scotland #highlander #Publication #SamHeughan #creator #sassenach #whisky #mountaineer #literature #entrepreneur #words #artist #reader #fiction #booknerd #bookaddict #story #samheughan #outlander #scottish #Sam Hueghan's Distinctly Scottish Passion: Scotch Whisky | Passion Projects yt credit Parade

[porterdavis]

Yesterday's winning payouts Mountaineer

R1 5.50

R2 7.10

R3 2.90

R4 2.20

R5 2.50

R6 3.40

R7 4.90

R8 3.80

And they wonder why the sport is dying.

#horse racing #mountaineer #mnr

[scotianostra]

On July 14th 1865, Lord Francis Douglas, an 18 year old novice mountaineer, with a team of six others became the first men to conquer the Matterhorn.

Tragedy struck on their descent though when a fall, involving a rope described as "no thicker than a washing line" snapped sending Douglas and three others to their deaths.

The mountain has still not given up the body of Francis Douglas.

#scottish #scotland #nobility #mountaineer #pioneer mountaineer #history

[pennedguins]

S2313 - Listen up

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