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DREADful climbers 31-Jan-2005 At 10:27:02 PM cheesehead

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On 31/01/2005 JBM wrote:
>Honestly, who gives a sh*t?

Hopefully no-one. Those who do have missunderstood the spirit of this thread.
Please don't make the mistake of thinking this thread as a call to arms to listen to Rage against the Machine and overthrow 'the man'.
If it has a serious side (at all), then perhaps it's 'take a look inside, discover what's important to you (and why), realise it'

>Last I heard, Linblade was a highpowered marketing exec in NYC..? (He
>has gone to the dark side....AMERICA!!!)

Yeah, he is. Note though that he's sacrifices a lot of career progression when it gets in the way of climbing. ie, he'd be a lot more high powered and 'successful' if he treated it as a 'career', even a lifestyle rather than a means to paying off übersized creditcard bills between expeditions. Sorry if I'm putting words into your mouth Andy (and Neil).