Talk:Jimmy Jewell (climber)/Archive 1
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Cornwall 1987
Jim climbed in Cornwall in 1987. I saw him there a two or three separate occasions, most memorably at Bosigran (where he seconded others but then soloed a wet HVS!) and at Land's End (where he seconded Yankee Doodle E2 5b and then lower to the ground, took his T-shirt off and soloed it!). I took some pictures (possibly slides) of the Yankee Doodle ascent, having seconded a rather thrilling E3 nearby, led by John Carroll of Glos. Jim saw me taking pics and "show-boating" raised his legs up behind him, lifting his heels behind him - hard to describe properly - it would have made a fantastic image but alas I took pictures just before & just after the trick. He seemed like a good sort and a generous soul, I was sad to hear of his fall a few months later.
Posters
The DMM Axe E4 solo poster was amazing - although I think it had a sadly prophetic tag-line, something like "Today the Axe, tomorrow the chop." :( At university in the mid-1980s, I had a poster on my wall for a couple of years showing several climbers climbing big, classic routes on Dinas Cromlech, most prominent was a fair haired climber soloing, I think Left Wall (or was it Right Wall?), practically doing full splits. I am wondering now if that was a young Jim Jewell. It was a fabulous poster.
Climbers Club Quote
The quote from the Climbers Club journal contains a syntactical error in the original text - an omission of the word "of". One editor inserted this missing word, but I have again removed it as this is a verbatim quote of the original article. Hopefully this is agreeable and the right thing to do. Boatgypsy (talk) 11:45, 3 January 2014 (UTC)