17.5.10

Important climbs

In the UK some climbers are lucky enough to do important climbs.

Important?

I decided to make a list of all my important climbs and then to make another list of all the people to whom those climbs were important. Then I would cross-correlate the two lists using some nifty software that I don't have and from that I would extract a network of important connections.

This took me absolutely no time at all. There wasn't a single entry on either list.

It reminded me of the Tilman biography The Last Hero which, I hasten to add, I haven't read. On the other hand I did read Harold Drasdo's review of the book in which he asked if you could be considered a hero for simply indulging your passion for wandering round in the wilderness or sailing round the world.

Can there possibly be such things as important climbs?

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