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: glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)
Date: Thu Mar 8 19:51:39 2007
References: <5F52C878-8352-42A1-9E79-3F05936C43A8@earthlink.net> <C215F930.483E6%mark@rabinergroup.com> <200703082343.l28Nhl4T072686@server1.waverley.reid.org>
 
Marc und Mark,

For the definitive answer to this, I defer to Todd Belcher, a noted 
climber as well as
a Rollei expert.

Jerry


Marc James Small wrote:
> 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
>
>
> m
Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] OT: Mountain-Climbing and Ansel Adams and Mark Rabiner)
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