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Rondette posted:haha, that is amazing. In his biography, The Wildest Dream, it says that the story about the pipe was probably made up. He just invented it as an excuse to climb that route solo. quote:The controversy arises from the fact that George climbed the route alone. At that time solo climbing was considered an unjustifiable practice, since anyone who fell would almost certainly be killed. Some climbers did it but kept their ascents secret. Later guidebook editors dismissed the story of George's ascent as apocryphal and refused to include it in their lists, but his biographer David Robertson, who assessed the evidence carefully, concluded that it was true. In retrospect it is most likely that George's description of the ascent was accurate but the pipe story was not. It may well have been that George had gone with Trafford to sniff around Lliwedd for fresh routes. Having set up the line of Slab Climb, he found that Trafford was unable to follow, and so completed the route himself. Because solo climbing was considered such anathema, George may have invented the story of the pipe to justify what he had done.
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