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08-08-2019, 02:07 PM #1
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08-08-2019, 04:09 PM #2Registered User
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looks French
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08-08-2019, 04:34 PM #3Registered User
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Patrick Vallancant? Has the right beard.
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08-08-2019, 04:38 PM #4
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08-08-2019, 04:49 PM #5
Vallencant, Verbier.
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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08-08-2019, 05:44 PM #6Registered User
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08-08-2019, 09:49 PM #7
Meh. Looks kinda flat for Vallencant.
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08-08-2019, 10:56 PM #8
I figured this was the right place to ask! I had never heard of him before.
His motto was: "si tu tombes, tu meurs", translated as "you fall, you die"
He died on March 28, 1989, in a non-skiing related climbing accident as a result of a broken carabiner, while abseiling from the top of La Beaume Rouge, in France.
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08-09-2019, 01:16 AM #9
if you're going to have a motto, it's best to live and die by that motto.
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08-09-2019, 12:56 PM #10Registered User
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Didn't Paul Ruff say "Dying ain't much of a living" --- and then came up short...... and died.
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08-10-2019, 05:40 PM #11glocal
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Why, yes, Ruff said that.
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08-11-2019, 06:13 AM #12
He was doing a Clint Eastwood impression for a ski film but ironically a year later he fulfilled that statement.
It reminds me of the old saying, "Careful what you ask for".
Something that is near the core of my situational awareness.watch out for snakes
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08-11-2019, 03:48 PM #13Registered User
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Who’s the skier? Where the cliff?
Broken carabiner...... i hate hearing sh*t like that. Makes me second guess my chosen recreational pursuits. We place a lot of faith in those things. I guess that’s why the notion of redundancy is so key in vmountaineering systems.
Sent from my iPhone using TGR ForumsLast edited by Angle Parking; 08-11-2019 at 07:27 PM.
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08-12-2019, 06:19 AM #14
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