The worst climber in the UK
I went to a climbing lecture the other night. Well, it’s omething different innit? Actually, the idea was to make a film of it, and I did take the camera along. Hopefully the audio will come through clearly enough for me to be able to make some kind of movie from it, the pictures won’t be any use cos the first thing the geezer did was to turn the lights off.
So anyway, it was pretty interesting. The guy is called Andy Kirkpatrick and puts himself across as the worst climber in the UK. He’s not at all – I mean sure, he’s not the best by a long shot and he’s full of stories of not quite summitting but he does some really crazy trips. He spoke about his recent Patagonia trip:
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He’s a funny guy, I liked him. But the lecture theatre had a weird crowd – wild eyed climbers drinking in the experience of doing such mental mountaineering by proxy. It’s climbing porn for these guys and well…. It’s always weird watching someone else’s porn isn’t it.
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