In reply to MB42:
Re recent threads on Don - he was a diamond and incredibly entertaining in this series, and on other films with Joe. I loved his lectures. Hilarious, let alone his talented climbing.
The Lakeland Rock series was superb, I know some of the people who helped make it.
Bill and Chris on Eagle Front was very poignant, I wish Bill had been with us longer.
For someone who stared at High Stile and High Crag from his bedroom window as a kid I feel a close attachment to all these things.
Bill's new routes and his art were top class.
Eagle Front is a beautiful and enjoyable climb - in the dry!! Desperate in the wet.
On Chris's 50th birthday, he had been out and done Cruel Sister with Jim Loxham RIP, Bonners was determined to lead a "modern" E3 on his 50th birthday. Tony Greenbank and I took photos from Arcturus. I still have all the pics - they will go in a book one day, I hope.
Back at Chris's birthday party I was fortunate to meet Bill, such a lovely bloke. I commented that Dexter Wall was surely serious 5a when he did the first ascent. It was a great pleasure to talk to him, and also to see the exhibition of Bill's incredible artworks at Cockermouth after his untimely death, so sad.
DC
