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Show Russell Jacobs 12 February 2010 thought was coming our way. And so we're just sort of hanging out it was early evening I'm sure we fixed something to eat. But off in the distance, closest to the East Ridge we noticed two other climbers. Of course, or two other people we didn't know what their reason was for being there until we approached them and lo and behold it was a couple of boys from Salt Lake City. They were coming up to do the same thing, or well I think they were approaching, they were going to run up the Grandstand and do the Northridge, so that was the route they'd picked. It was one of the Tombs boys and his partner I didn't know him at all, but they were camped, oh a hundred yards or so from our little cave. MD: You say the Tombs boys? RJ: Well there's Glee, then Guy both of which were, in their time, pretty high-end climbers, but since they've both had extreme falls, uh, and I don't think either of 'em climb any more. Um, they were extremely severe and I believe one of 'em was severe enough to where he, he lost a lot of his senses, uh, his job, his wife, because of that fall. He was very seriously injured, he was dropped and hit his head and it was his brother that was belaying him. I don't know the exact circumstances; I have only heard this through the grapevine. But it was probably the younger; I believe it was the younger of the two Tombs brothers. But in the Salt Lake Valley everyone knows who they are in the climbing circle. Uh, in any case we hunkered down and went to bed and woke up pretty early with rain, a light drizzle, foggy, overcast, thick clouds, not a lot of promise for a good dry climb, but the four of us were up early and the two climbers in the distance hollered out to us, 'Well are you going up?' And of course I said 'Yeah, of course. We didn't come up here just to play around, were gonna do it.' So I had too much pride at the time to renege and go back down the trail without giving it a good attempt. So Chris 2 |
