Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/08

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Mountain-Climbing and Ansel Adams and Mark Rabiner
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Thu Mar 8 15:43:55 2007
References: <5F52C878-8352-42A1-9E79-3F05936C43A8@earthlink.net> <C215F930.483E6%mark@rabinergroup.com>

At 05:32 PM 3/8/2007, Mark Rabiner wrote:

 >But he did climb mountains before modern mountain climbing techniques were
 >invented.
 >

Hmm.

Mark,

Most modern mountain-climbing techniques had been 
developed by 1920.  The improvements in climbing 
since then have almost entirely consisted in 
improvements in gear and in improvements in 
understanding high-altitude physiology.  But 
Norton and Irving and Irvine and Norton and 
Shipton knew as much about climbing mountains in 
terms of techniques at surmounting rock and ice as is known today.

Marc


msmall@aya.yale.edu
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!



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