Now I got an email from my mum last week about a roll of film she found whilst tidying up various bits of junk I had left at home. Apparently, my younger brother needs both a recording studio/games room, a study and my old bedroom. Anyway after the panic of whether or not the photos were going to be fit for my mum to see I started to wonder what they were. Apparently they were of ‘climbing’. Which really isn’t that much of a surprise.
It has been probably 6 years since I last shot anything in film, although I still have a couple of old rolls of film I have shot from way before them, one I think isn’t even mine, I just found it in a room I moved into! Anyway the photos arrive and they were of a random trip I made back in 2001, and some random Pass scenes.
It was an amazing trip, one that perhaps help some the development of climbing in recent years. The pictures are of Ivan Tresch and Ben on Messiah, attempting to climb it ground up. The route is E6, when you think these younger climbers are now 8 years down the line climbing E8 ground up, it shows the long term effort they have put into developing the skill of onsight ground up climbing.
The random photo of Llanberis Pass I think has the now Mrs Katz, and a friend of hers Vicki, although not really sure who they are?!
