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    Jim Bridwell (July 29, 1944 – February 16, 2018) was an American rock climber and mountaineer, active from 1965 in Yosemite Valley, but later in Patagonia...
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    Chill (VI 5.9 A4), FA by Jim Bridwell, Peter Mayfield, Sean Plunkett and Steve Bosque 1989 Shadows (VI 5.10 A5), FA by Jim Bridwell, Charles Row, Cito Kirkpatrick...
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  • American musician E. Nelson Bridwell (1931–1987), American writer Gene Porter Bridwell (born 1935), American director Jim Bridwell (1944-2018), American rock...
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    led by pioneers such as Royal Robbins and Warren Harding, and later Jim Bridwell, and was also where Robbins' ethos of minimal-aid, and Yvon Chouinard's...
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  • basketball coach Jim Breuer (born 1967), American comedian Jim Bridwell (1944–2018), American rock climber Jim Broadbent (born 1949), English actor Jim Brown, multiple...
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    working the route (graded 5.13+ by the Yosemite Decimal System). Jim Bridwell and Jim Stanton climbed the four Stoveleg Crack pitches (5.10c) free in 1968...
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  • Rick Accomazzo, Dale Bard, Jim Bridwell, Dean Fidelman, Richard Harrison, Mike Graham, Robs Muir, Gib Lewis, Bill Antel, Jim Hoagland, Tobin Sorenson,...
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    known as the Compressor route and was climbed to the summit in 1979 by Jim Bridwell and Steve Brewer. Most parties consider the ascent complete only if they...
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    "Saphire Bullets of Pure Love" new route/first winter ascent by Jim Bridwell, summited by Bridwell, Janet Reynolds (first woman ascent), Ned Gillette, January...
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    Nelson); Pacific Ocean Wall (1975, Jim Bridwell, Billy Westbay, Jay Fiske and Fred East); Sea of Dreams (1978, Bridwell, Dale Bard and Dave Diegelman); Jolly...
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    the Woo Li Masters, East Face (VI 5.9 WI4+ A4, 1520m) Mugs Stump and Jim Bridwell 1997 The Toose's Mooth (north face), Alaska Grade 6: FA by Seth 'S.T...
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    which can be placed without a hammer. Known often as Birdbeaks named for Jim Bridwell whose nickname was "The Bird". Knifeblade – also known as a bugaboos...
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    record for fastest solo ascent without oxygen of Cho Oyu and Ama Dablam Jim Bridwell (1944–2018) US, first ascents of major aid routes on El Capitan; first...
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  • Greece.[citation needed] In 1978, Sylvester, along with famed mountaineer Jim Bridwell, helped rescue approximately 40 people trapped in a ski tram in blizzard...
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    the 3,000 foot Nose route on El Capitan, on Memorial Day, 1975, with Jim Bridwell and Billy Westbay. The following year, partnered with Dale Bard, Long...
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    under his prosthetic leg and fell backward off the cliff. He was 52. Jim Bridwell, American big wall aid climbing pioneer Staff, Climbing (29 October 2013)...
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  • 1943 – David Taylor, English snooker player and sportscaster 1944 – Jim Bridwell, American rock climber and mountaineer (d. 2018) 1945 – Sharon Creech...
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  • The Moose's Tooth, Ruth Gorge, Alaska, US (VI 5.9 WI4+ A4, 1520m) with Jim Bridwell 1981 Moonflower Buttress, North Buttress of Mount Hunter, Alaska Range...
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  • Edward Nelson Bridwell (September 22, 1931 – January 23, 1987) was an American writer for Mad magazine (writing the now-famous catchphrase, "What you mean...
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    and a bit less strenuous to lead. 1978 : Dave Diegelman, Dale Bard, Jim Bridwell lead the aid climbing route Sea of Dreams on El Capitan, Yosemite, hardest-ever...
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  • first winter ascent of Pumori by an American team. In 1984, McKinney and Jim Bridwell undertook a successful ski descent of Denali. In 1986, McKinney returned...
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    nearby parking lot. From the 1970s on, a new group of climbers led by Jim Bridwell and others based at Camp 4 (known as the "Stone Masters" from 1973 to...
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    ascent of Entrance Exam (II 5.9) on Arch Rock in Yosemite Valley with Jim Bridwell, Chris Fredericks and Larry Marshik. That same year, along with Fredericks...
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  • (b. 1925) J. Clay Smith Jr., jurist and author (b. 1942) February 16 Jim Bridwell, free climber (b. 1944) Little Sammy Davis, blues singer-songwriter and...
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  • heart attack. Reidar Berg, 93, Norwegian Olympic bobsledder (1948). Jim Bridwell, 73, American free climber, complications from hepatitis C. Little Sammy...
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    Billy Westbay, Jim Bridwell, and John Long after the first one-day ascent of the Nose in 1975...
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  • world. Willi Unsoeld Alex Lowe Steve House Rolando Garibotti Jim Bridwell Chuck Pratt Jim Donini The Exum Mountain Guides official web site Exum Mountain...
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    Mountain Wilderness. Among them were Haroun Tazieff, Kurt Diemberger, Jim Bridwell, John Hunt, Wanda Rutkiewicz. The "Biella theses", on which the above...
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    ninth editor-in-chief, and his work as editor in chief of Valiant Comics. Jim Shooter was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to parents Ken and Eleanor...
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  • Angel and the Ape is a humor comic book created by E. Nelson Bridwell & Bob Oksner published by DC Comics. The characters first appeared in 1968 in Showcase...
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