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Bourge's world 2-Mar-2005 At 3:15:08 PM Bourge

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On 2/03/2005 simey wrote:
>I'm a bit disturbed by this last posting.
>
>I'm not against the idea of mainstream media and sponsorship being a part
>of climbing. .......
......
>That's why I've always admired Czech and Polish climbers
>in the past. They used to put up the most inspiring and difficult routes
>in the Himalayas without big dollar sponsorship. They'd clean some dodgy
>nuclear reactor to scrape some dollars together and then head off on their
>next expedition with a minimum of gear and a minimum of fuss and establish
>cutting-edge routes.
>
>As for the mainstream media... well they will never understand the intricacies
>of climbing to report it well.

This is where we're at. McClimbing - media driven, sponsorship seeking, commercialization, privatization, cyber-linking, hospital-at-basecamp world

I like the reference to Jerzy Kukuczka and his mates cleaning the nuclear reactor