But the anger and the energy lives on for many. Some may laugh that punk was dead 20 years ago. Some will "succeed" as they will pay for guides and Sherpas to break a trail, fix a hand rail of rope, carry their packs and lower the mountain to their level with bottled oxygen. Now consider that there will be those at base camp on Denali who will "climb" Everest next year as their third climb in the mountains (after Rainer and Denali). Neither carried supplementary oxygen of course. He "failed", reaching 27500 feet attempting to simul solo a new route with Barry Blanchard. But take the blue ribbon of climbing Everest. They've all seen this scene many times from the camp they call "The Ghetto". We share the tent with fellow American world-class alpinists Scott Backes and Steve House. The owner of the offending din is Mark Twight who at AGE 38 is one of Americas most influential but controversial alpinists. Obviously not fans of the "Revolting Cocks" they slip and slid further away. "American alpinists are the Jamaican Bobsledders of world mountaineering." I look up to see the accuser smirking through the steam of the boiling stove as he turns up the volume and points the stereo speakers out towards the struggling climbers. Slovenia? What's a Slovenia?" the remark awakens me from the hopelessness outside. "Americans don't climb at the current world standard in any range because they have no clue what that standard is. They will not be alone, at least 70 percent of base camp seem to share the same objective and many the same level of skill. After Denali the team plan to climb Everest. I wonder what their sponsors would think.
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Two have been dragged sliding down the slope by their ridiculously over-laden sledges, one is still standing but only because his companions have entwined a cats cradle of rope around his legs, another is starring puzzled at the limp end of his rope unable to fathom how to attach himself. Six young men in matching yellow Gore-tex suits covered in sponsorship logos are struggling to stand up on their skis. Staring out of the tent at Denali Base Camp I'm watching a strange human drama.
It is the way I live my life." Mark Twight Because I know I can't get away with slacking off, that the thing which happens after mediocrity is the ground. "Because I know there is consequence, it keeps me honest, it keeps me scared. Ian Parnell profiles one of American climbing's more colorful characters, the influential alpinist Mark Twight. I still smile broadly when I think back to meeting him on the Kahiltna Glacier, where he was then, how far out there he's gone since, and what a great time we had listening to punk rock, old and new.
Ian Parnell wrote this ditty and it was printed in one of the UK climbing magazines.
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