Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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!