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\nJohn Bachar interview extract July 2008 by D.Gill\u00a0
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\nJohn Bachar was found yesterday July 7, at the base of Dike Wall, a granite cliff suspended over Mammoth Lakes near Bishop, California, where he lived together with his son Tyrus.
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\nThe reason of the accident are unknown. He was born on 1957 and\u00a0grown up in Los Angeles; he attended at UCLA university then devoted himself to full time climbing.
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\nJohn Bachar \u00a0is a true\u00a0legend in world climbing\u00a0and an inspiration \u00a0for generations of climbers. He was a pioneer in training for climbing and long before bouldering was popular, he practised that discipline.
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\nOn 1975 together with \u00a0Ron Kauk and John Long he completed a masterpiece as Astroman at Washington Coulumn, at that time the most continuously difficult free climb in the world.
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\nConfident of his free soloing ability, Bachar posted a note in 1981 promising a "$10,000 reward for anyone who can follow me for one full day."
\nNo one took the challenge.
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\nIn 1986 (at that time talented modern climbers as Honnold or Potter were kids!)\u00a0 Bachar and\u00a0Peter Croft\u00a0\u00a0linked The Nose at\u00a0 the Capitan and Regular Route at Half Dome\u00a0in under 14 hours. Definitively, Bachar pushed the boundaries of what was possible and raised the world’s standards of climbing.
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\nOn August 2006,\u00a0he was involved in a serious car accident\u00a0in Salt Lake Sity Colorado and suffered five fractured vertebrae.
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\nAn awesome documentary on Bachar One Man, One Myth, One Legend\u00a0was written and directed on 2005 by Michael Reardon, a professional American Free Solo Climber, filmmaker and writer (perished after being swept to sea by a rogue wave shortly after climbing a cliff in Ireland)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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