That and more: quarryman and factory work-in his youth, member of Poland's anti-Nazi underground, professor of philosophy and ethics, pastor with an unaffectedly common touch.
I named each of these stones for someone involved in the project, like Carlo, the quarryman.
He lays life's grim intimacies bravely to heart: a fish taken unawares and frozen fast in black pond ice; a drunken quarryman who compares plowing the deep soil to sailing the .
Video: James McHaffie on The Meltdown (5.14d) James McHaffie climbs The Meltdown (5.14d), a slab climb in the Dinorwig slate quarries above Llanberis in North Wales. It was a Johnny Dawes project until McHaffie made the first ascent. The Meltdown climbs just to the right of The Quarryman, another famous climb.
Aug. 21, 2013 - Climbing Magazine