 Nice article in the Times (ahem) yesterday about the legends clothing. Graham Hoyland, who found Mallory`s body has re-created the clothing of the period and been going to the Himalayas for a few years.
Garbadine and silk trews (nice)! Maybe its time to ditch the Mountain equipment et al and start running up our own....If its good enough for Mallory and Irvine.........
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july 22nd-The National Mountaineering Exhibition-Rheged Cumbria. All the kit that Mallory will be on display (replicas obvously).
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 Herioc,
have you read "Yorkshire transvestite found dead on Everest" isbn 190452445-7 its not about Mallory/Irvine but its a fantastic read!!
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 If its good enough for Mallory and Irvine.........
Um... did Mallory and Irvine come home???
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PW,
No they both died :-( but fantastic men!
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He had fleece underwear and a huge hooded down suit, several inches thick. As he said: “The main problem with climbing Everest nowadays is pissing through a six-inch suit with a three-inch penis.†(Taken from the Times Yesterday)
Fantastic :-) lol
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For those that wanted to read it http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20029-2273953_1,00.html
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.jpg) Can see the form now .
Hight 1.800 m
Weight 90K
Length 220mm .. what, no, really.... honest
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 wasn't this story doing the rounds last year
it was even covered on some progs on radio 4.
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Darren
It is the same story that was on R4 last autumn; but The Times is covering it now
You can get an insight into the work to create the clothing & why it has been developed in the Innovation for Extremes conference on September 27th @ Lancaster University: details from m.rose@lancaster.ac.uk
Rumours are that quite a few of the more informed will be there: Chris Townsend, Graham Thompson, Ken Ledward & even Julie from Montane
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Almost had me there with the "the more informed will be there" and then you listed who... very funny
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 Well, informed or not (I did wear tweed britches many moons ago :-)), I won't be there as I'll be leading the TGO Readers Trek to K2 Base Camp at the time.
I did attend the last two Innovations for Extremes conferences and they were interesting.
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I bet there will be "Supersilk" base layers within a year ..
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http://www.terramarsports.com/home.php
Silk underwear never went away completely. I've tested occasional garments over the years. Silk is excellent for liner gloves and sleeping bag liners and pretty good as underwear.
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Yep - I still have a silk vest and bottoms I bought 15 years ago from Patra - works great. I haven't been so pleased with my Rab silk bag liner - I'm on my second one. Despite very careful washing the first distintegrated. I think the mistake I made was to keep it stored in the tiny stuffsac. I haven't done that with my second one and it seems to be lasting longer.
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I'm going to have nightmares now for weeks with the image of CT and silk underwear :(
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The article went a bit further, Hoyland thought he could reconstruct the events of Mallory and Irvines deaths....a theme touched on by Robert Mcfarlane in his brilliant book, "Mountains of the mind".
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No, Peewiglet, the last time they did not return, sadly, but they did twice before that, and it was the early 20`s a spellbinding achievement.
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"Yorkshire transvestite found dead on Everest".
Surely a wind up soulexpress? I`ve always had the greatest respect for Yorkshiremen...er....women....er men....oh bugger!
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 "Yorkshire transvestite found dead on Everest" - Mike Harding isn't it?
Edit: I meant Mike as the author, not the Yorkshire transvestite! (I have no allegations to make on that score - don't sue, please Mike! :)
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