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Bob McMahon Passes Away 19-Apr-2013 At 12:31:15 AM simey

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Wow, that just seems unbelievable. It was just the other day I was at Gareth Llewellin's house in Natimuk admiring a large print of a wild wave-swept ocean when I found out Bob had taken the photo and also made the frame. It really was a fantastic image. Gareth and I then got talking about Bob and what a unique character he was - a fascinating mix of climber, scholar, artist, writer, bogan, explorer. His contribution to Australian climbing on so many levels is enormous (new routes, new cliffs, writing great climbing stories, superb photography, guidebooks, starting up climbing magazines, building climbing huts, introducing numerous others to climbing). And yet he had a whole range of other interests too. How he fitted it all into one lifetime beats me.

RIP Bob McMahon.