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tempestwind
Mar 29, 2004, 9:52 PM
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In reply to: Both Huber brothers, Dean Potter, Peter Croft, Lynn Hill, and Tommy Caldwell (just cause he still rules with 3 fingers).
So many places around this planet where there is this little unknown who is pulling down some Prolific lines, Unheard of F.A.'s in the Himalayas etc...
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litleclimberchick
Mar 29, 2004, 9:57 PM
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just five...let's see
Ramonet Julian Puigblanque
Josune Bereziartu
Lisa Rands
Lynn Hill
Chris Sharma (extraterrestrials count right :wink: )
Dave Graham
Dean Potter
oops... that's seven...oh well
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climbingbum
Mar 29, 2004, 9:59 PM
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Dave Cheesemond, Peter Croft, Steve House, George Lowe, and the Hubers.
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robmcc
Mar 29, 2004, 10:32 PM
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I nominate myself and my two regular climbing partners. Add any other random two.
These other people you...oh, wait...y'all...keep talking about might climb harder lines, but they don't make my time on the rocks any better. That's the number one criteria for inclusion in my top 5.
Rob
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doki
Mar 29, 2004, 10:52 PM
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Wwwhhat???
Chuck Pratt is #1. You guy's totally forgot 'bout him!!!
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keinangst
Mar 29, 2004, 10:57 PM
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Jack Welch
Sam Walton
Lee Iacocca
Ferdinand Piech
Andrew Carnegie
Too many to decide. But then again, the stuff these guys climbed was like a freakin' ladder!
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lovesclimbing
Mar 29, 2004, 11:33 PM
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Barry Blanchard
Mark Twight
Reinhold Messner
Jeff Lowe
Steve House
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iclimbtoo
Mar 30, 2004, 12:12 AM
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Messner
Hill
Yuji
Dean Potter and of course wife...
Steph Davis
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climbhigh2005
Mar 30, 2004, 12:21 AM
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In reply to: Both Huber brothers, Dean Potter, Peter Croft, Lynn Hill, and Tommy Caldwell (just cause he still rules with 3 fingers).
agreed! :D
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barefeetnochalk
Mar 30, 2004, 1:33 AM
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i guess it all depends on what u define as being the best climber ie: best big wall traddie, hardest consitant sport routes being climbed or being the biggest power mutant of a boulderer.
how bout the best all round climber in the world?
i would have to nominate dave graham, he has an incrediably impressive tick list for both sport climbing and bouldering, F**k that boy can climb.
on a side note: it seems that there's a lot of g0ddam hard sending goin' on over in europe that we never really hear much about, i guess what im tryna say is that its all relative.
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tarzan420
Mar 30, 2004, 2:24 AM
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maybe i'm alone here, but I don't think that Dave Graham and "All-round" really belong in the same sentance.
When I think of "all-round" i think, bouldering, sport, trad, big-wall, aid, AND mountaineering.
Mutants that pull down hard in all of the above? None that I know of. The closest I can think of would be the Hubers (apart from the obvious, I think they've done big wall/mountaineering type stuff in the dolomites) and Dean Potter (Patagonia solos anyone?)
On a side note, does it really matter? Trying to say the best climber in the world is like choosing the best fruit. I like bananas, you like oranges, but they still taste pretty darn good!
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lovesclimbing
Mar 30, 2004, 4:18 AM
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very true, for myself when someone talks about the "best" climber I will always lean towards someone mainly in the alpine, ice, big wall and not pay to much attention to sport or boulders, but like you say some like orange's and others bananna's but there all good.
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thewyseclimber
Mar 30, 2004, 5:16 AM
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Honestly...does this petty debating get us anywhere? Does it help you have more fun the next time you're on the rock? All it serves is to make me jealous... :D
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melekzek
Mar 30, 2004, 5:59 AM
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In reply to: Aelister Crowley
nice one, :twisted:
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jookyhead
Mar 30, 2004, 6:07 AM
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Hmm.... odd, I don't see my name here.
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kalcario
Mar 30, 2004, 6:57 AM
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*how bout the best all round climber in the world?*
Sorry Verm, it's a Frenchman
http://www.planetfear.com/climbing/features/misc/all-rounders/all-rounders.htm
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mkjwngoat
Mar 30, 2004, 8:13 AM
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I, of course am the best all around climber. I consistantly Boulder V0, can climb 5.4 Trad and am working on redpointing a 5.6 sport. Once I saw some one ice climbing, and have topped out on one mountian so far. But man, I'm the best looking out of anyone named as of yet... thats whats really important, right?
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