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- From: jmorton@euler.Berkeley.EDU (John Morton)
- Subject: Re: rappel accidents
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- In article <1993Jan26.160410.23603@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> ejensen@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Erik Jensen) writes:
-
- [Erik's message was in the header. It mentioned the rappeling death
- of a B.C. climber who has a memorial on the Squamish Apron.]
-
- This was Jim Baldwin, of Prince Rupert, B.C. He was rappeling the
- E. Face of Washington Column with John Evans, about 1966 I guess.
- It was pretty much dark when Baldwin went down ahead of Evans to
- land at a large ledge maybe 300' from the ground. He is
- thought to have lost his balance when getting out of rappel, since
- the ledge slopes awkwardly. Gossip had it that he was careless
- and preoccupied because of the failure of a romantic relationship.
-
- Baldwin's claim to fame is his career of climbs with Ed Cooper,
- which included the Grand Wall at Squamish (do I have the name right?).
- They were the first outsiders to put up a big wall in Yosemite,
- the Dihedral Wall, in about 1964. The Valley types found Cooper
- hard to handle, with his ambitious and commercial approach to
- climbing. However Baldwin fit right in and was well liked and
- greatly missed.
-
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