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best climber????? 18-Oct-2007 At 8:54:53 PM TLockwood

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Twas just a thought, more of a generalisation, not directly aimed at him, just thinkin about how you judge a better climber, someone who takes many goes to do an extremely hard climb or someone who is consistent a few grades lower?
then bring in the factor of whether they climb all styles or just one?
do we need a best climber for each style and then a best all rounder?
Does purer(?) ethics make someone a better climber?
define climber? does that include aid climbers? yes, they are scaling a cliff but not by means of free climbing.. plenty of questions that need answering before finding the best climber..
thats all the questions i can think of for now.
I havnt seen or read enough about the top end climbers to know who does or doesn't fit this bill.
personally i think a quality climber (i dont like the word best) is someone who can consistenly climb all styles at a high level, with decent ethics such as sensible bolting, doesnt use chalk (yeah im biased so what), who doesnt work the bejeezus out of a route to get up it (i prefer the style malcolm mentions in his interview, r.e. gear in, in a day and yo-yoing).
well thats all i can be bothered thinking of for now
just my two bob