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Revision as of 21:47, 3 November 2006
The Kitchen Sink Award
Early in the new millennium, I found myself wandering around Argentinean Patagonia with my long-time friend,Dave Campbell. Every mountaineer on earth knows the name and legend of Cerro Torre. For Dave and I, it was not to be missed. On a beautiful day in February, we took to frolicking around on the Torre Glacier. The sights were... well, let's just say that I highly recommend going there. Above us loomed the massive granitic finger of Cerro Torre; its South Face, vertical and some 1300m high, sanctifying its summit. The easiest route is rated a very difficult ULMTAN (standing for "Um, Let Me Think About...No!"). But that's ok. What I could take from standing below this tower was the simple pleasure of being in a magical place. On top of that, I gained instant respect for those that have climbed the peak.
While heading back to camp, something caught my eye in the bottom of a shallow closed crevasse. Dave investigated, finding a 1m by 1m mangled chunk of alunimium sheet. It all clicked instantly. In 1995, a team of three Italians (R.Manni, E. Salvaterra, and P. Vidi) climbed a new route on the South Face called "Infinite South". Undoubtedly the route was really hard, rated at 5.11+ / A4 / 70 degree ice for 36 pitches (alternatively rated ULMTAN). The team made the "intersting" decision to use an Aluminium box as a bivy. After climbing a few pitches and setting ropes, the team would spend endless arduous hours hauling the mutliple-hundred-pound beast up the wall. The thing was so heavy that they resorted to using a ratcheting, lever-based pulley. So, with every difficult push of the lever, they gained an impressive 2cm with the box. Hauling a 50 m pitch would take 2500 pumps of the handle!
Upon reaching the top of the wall, they realized that rappelling with this box would not prove easy. Besides, they wanted to summit. So they fitted the box with a parachute and prepared it for "touch down". Considering that the area gets some of the world's fiercest winds (eddies upwards of 70 km/h), you might think this was a doomed experiment. Within a few hundred metes, the parachute collapsed and the box free fell the height of a 300-storey bulding until making solid contact with the ground. A dew days later, the team reported that they went to the base and found no trace of the box: all they found was a haul bag. What would you rather find: 200kg of mangled Aluminium or a haulbag? So, five years later, Dave and I found a big chunk of the above-mentioned box... 5 km away ! I smell a rat.
After carrying the scrap back to Cerro Torre base camp, I erected a monument with the metal entitled "Fly It In, Chuck It Off". Not more than half an hour later, I heard the monument being disassembled. As it turns out, a group of Germans were outraged by my monument; a heated argument ensued. After agreeing to keep the monument down for the sake of the tourists, we carried the scrap out and offered it to the rangers. How interesting that the 1995 climb received international recognition yet the rangers had no idea of how the aluminium got there nor had they ever heard of our Italian champions. Thus, the Kitchen Sink Award comes into being: dedicated to the Italian champions for bringing way too much stuff. The Kitchen Sink Award shall be given to that VOC member who knowingly or unknowingly overloads his or her pack with superfluous devices.
-By Jeremy Frimer, VOCJ 43 2000-2001 p.150-152
Loving Cup
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VOC UBC Ski Championship Downhill Mens "A" Class
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