Sharing Stories from the Climbing Community
Photo by P. Ourom
Podcasts for some of these stories are HERE We hope you enjoy them!
List of Stories
- El Capitan Mescalito Wall
- El Capitan Shield Wall
- El Capitan Zodiac Wall-1
- El Capitan Zodiac Wall-2
- Genius Loci-Squamish
- John Rosholt Memorial
- Laps on the Grand
- Mt Slesse Fraser Ribber
- Mt Slesse Heart of Darkness
- Mt Slesse Introduction
- Mt Slesse N.E. Buttress
- Outward Bound 1984
- Saving Canada-The Beginning
- Saving Canada-The Mountain
- Saving Canada-The Stunt
John Rosholt Memorial
Written by Peder Ourom
Photo of John Rosholt, Bugaboos, Nelson, BC
Photo credit: Peder Ourom
Sometime in the now somewhat blurry mid-seventies I first met John. There were two climbing capitals of the world in North America at this time, Eldorado in Colorado, and Yosemite Valley (sorry Henry!) in California. Being a Squamish climber, the magnet for me was the big walls, as they had been for the previous generation of Canadian Valley climbers. For John, the pull was the free climbing.