Jim bridwell biography
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Jim Bridwell
Climbing Career
Learning the Ropes
Jim Bridwell was a Texas born son of a military pilot. Though his parents hoped, often and loudly, that he would follow in his father’s footsteps, Jim had different ideas. From a young age, he was drawn to high places. In an interview with Climbing magazine published posthumously in , he cites his fixation with capturing birds of prey as the thing that got him excited about climbing.
“The easiest way was to climb to the nest and take the young birds, then train them. After a while, the climbing became more important than the birds.”
When Bridwell was 18, he permanently left any military ambitions behind and joined the modest throng of adventure seekers in Yosemite Valley. Learning under the tutelage of figures like Royal Robbins and others of Yosemite’s Golden Age, he quickly took the torch and ran with it. As the Royal Robbins’ and Yvon Chouinards’ of that era faded out of the spectacle and the s approached, Bridwel
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Jim ( the first on the left) on top of the Capitan at the end of Pacific Ocean vägg
Jim Bridwell is one of the protagonists of world mountaineering. The bio narrates his story using images and tales, but above all through several interviews that were made of him and other popular climbers. We can see Bridwell climbing some of his historical routes together with other ung modern climbers. There fryst vatten an historical documentary of which reports one of the famous ascents of Zodiac tillsammans with Fred East and it fryst vatten a real homage to this great hero of world climbing.
The DVD cover
There are many extras : interviews to Silvia Vidal, (the first European woman to klättra in solo Zodiac), to Scott Burke (the second to klättra the Nose free), to the director (who interviews him self!) to Cesare Maestri ( the Italian climber who opened the Via sektion Compressore to the Cerro Torre)
Maps and photos of the easy routes of Yosemite, and so on.
Bridwell, Ron kauk and the Director during the shoo • American big wall rock climber and mountaineer Bridwell in Jim Bridwell (July 29, &#;– February 16, ) was an American rock climber and mountaineer, active from in Yosemite Valley, but later in Patagonia and Alaska. He was noted for pushing the standards of both aid climbing and big wall climbing, and later alpine climbing. He wrote numerous articles on climbing and developed several important pieces of aid climbing equipment. Bridwell was an apprentice to Royal Robbins and Warren Harding,[1] and later the unofficial leader of the Stonemasters.[2] Bridwell is credited with over first ascents (FA) in Yosemite Valley, in addition to conducting the first one- Jim Bridwell
Born ()July 29,
San Antonio, TexasDied February 16, () (aged&#;73)
Palm Springs, California, U.S.Type of climber Known for First ascents Climbing career
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