http://www128.pair.com/r3d4k7/Bouldering_History1.0.html
Dovuta menzione anche al quasi sconosciuto (da noi) Jim Holloway che già nel '75 saliva blocchi di 8a e 8a+ (o più semplicemente un JHH), anticipando i tempi di un decennio pieno.
Questa è meritevole:
"Dinner over, the company is scattered about the hotel, yet every room seems crowded . . . Meanwhile the more energetic may be found in the Billiard Room . . . 'let's have the passage of the billiard table leg'. . . Only the gymnast succeeds; he begins by sitting on the table . . . he lets himself down gently, and, suddenly, twisting around, he braces his legs firmly against the cross-bars underneath . . . after a struggle his other hand and his leg appear on the opposite side of the table leg, and a moment afterwards he is sitting breathless on the table once more, amidst loud cheers." - L. J. Oppenheimer in The Heart of Lakeland, 1908. "
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