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Pics of Ball's Pyramid from Bryden Allen, one of the first people to summit this wicked place: http://www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/Bryden.html http://www.uq.edu.au/nu
by xbryanx 15y ago
Pics of Ball's Pyramid from Bryden Allen, one of the first people to summit this wicked place:
http://www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/Bryden.html http://www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/Bryden.html
- Schwolop 15y agoBryden is my uncle, and although I knew he'd climbed a lot of cool stuff in his time (Centrepoint Tower in Sydney, for example), I'd never realised he'd done Ball's Pyramid. Now I'll actually have an interesting conversation with him for once!
- defrost 15y agoThere's an underground film "The only building I ever wanted to climb" showing the summiting of Centrepoint Tower after your uncle's attempt. The overhang of the restaurant base was what stopped him from going further, later parties had to pull the blueprints of the building and make up some rings to slot into the rails underneath. See: http://brydenallen.com/sandstone_and_clock-towers.pdf http://brydenallen.com/sandstone_and_clock-towers.pdf
- andrewkreid 15y agoSummit is a verb now?
- chad_oliver 15y agoIt has been for a while, in certain dialects. One of the wonderful things about english is that it evolves.
- xbryanx 15y agohttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/summit?show=1&t=1330718262 http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/summit?show=1&...
- ranit8 15y agoDisclaimer: English is not my first language. In my experience, I see it's very, very common to turn a noun as a verb, in informal contexts. Do you people still bother to make a distinction?
- bebop 15y agoYes we do make that distinction.
- eftpotrm 15y agoYup, that happens pretty regularly, some coianges being better than others. For example, during the Beijing Olympics, various coaches and commentators unfortunately verbified 'medal'. The resulting sentences were not pleasant...