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Subject: Rick Fielding on Everest From: bill\sables Date: 02 Mar 01 - 06:21 AM I have just started reading a book called "High Risk" by Matt Dickinson about an adventure on Mt. Everest and the Mountaineer hires an experienced Everest guide called RICK FIELDING. He doesn't do any singing or banjo playing but I'm sure there can't be two of them. Bill |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: katlaughing Date: 02 Mar 01 - 06:34 AM Ah! I knew he had a secret life he hasn't been telling us about! I suppose that means a whole other thing now when he says to practice one's scales(ing) and going for new heights.*bg* |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 02 Mar 01 - 06:36 AM If he sings "On top of Old Smokey" or "Sittin' on top of the world" at the summit accompanying himself on a rare Lhasa-made 17-string Chinese guitar it might be a give-away! RtS (are those the Shangri-las singing the backing vocals, I wonder?) |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Little Neophyte Date: 02 Mar 01 - 07:09 AM Bill, let us know if you enjoyed reading the book. I am always interested in a good mountaineering adventure story. Little Neo |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: InOBU Date: 02 Mar 01 - 07:23 AM Could it be an aligorical Everest of trying to make a living at folk music in these the last days of Babalon? Larry |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: mkebenn Date: 02 Mar 01 - 07:51 AM Little Neo, have you read "Into Thin Air"? Chilling in more ways than one. Mike |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Mar 01 - 08:23 AM I heard he was at the pinnacle of his career but I thought it was summit and nowt.... DtG |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: SINSULL Date: 02 Mar 01 - 08:50 AM I also recommend "Into Thin Air". The man who was left for dead and wandered back into camp suffered incredible frost bite. He lost his nose. It was replaced by grafting a nose made of pig skin and bone on his forehead. When it grew to the proper size, it was cut partially away and turned down to the nose position. Amazing. Rick, be careful up there. |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Mar 01 - 09:52 AM I was waiting for the punchline Sinsull - sounds too much like a joke not to have one! Like the pub landlord who had a sheeps mouth grafted on - When his regulars started to laugh he had to Baaa them all.... Cheers Dave the silly Gnome |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: catspaw49 Date: 02 Mar 01 - 10:01 AM I'm with you on "Into Thin Air"......loved it!! And maybe Blessing Barbara will drop in and give us some info on her relationship to George Mallory (really). AS to the Rick Fielding character..........I don't think it could be our Rick because I don't believe he's ever been happy be as tall as he is or climbing a ladder, let alone Everest. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Rick Fielding Date: 02 Mar 01 - 11:02 AM Everest? As in Mount...? As in actually climbing up..? Which of course means a LOT of walking, not to mention all those hip winter clothes...finally learning what the differences between "crampons" and "tampons" are... Hey, no way Jose,(no racist slight to those of Spanish persuasion implied) I've seen what happens on Mt. Everest...Every guy gets icicles hanging off his beard, and they all lose their toes....and the Sherpas want to share in the book royalties....and you have to sit in a tent with a storm blowing outside and then someone's expected to get up and say "I'm just going for a walk", and they never come back, and then you have to start eating each other, and then you're expected to write some fukking noble words in your journal, like..."when you read this I'll be frozen stiffer than a box of Captain Highliner Crab cakes, but it doesn't matter, 'cause I did it all for Queen and Country...." Not to mention the chances that some Yeti is gonna break into the tent and find you attractive...and even if you DO survive, you'll have to be on the cover of TIME magazine, and then they'll be asking your former teachers and school mates "what you're REALLY like", and they'll all say..."he was a real dork, and he was always annoying people with that dunb banjo, and then the National Enquirer will start following you around, lookin' to see if you've got a connection to Hugh Rodham,..and...and....ahh to hell with it! Rock Feldman |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Bill D Date: 02 Mar 01 - 11:17 AM ...so, you take an Ovation guitar along and tobaggan down on it(a new Olympic sport!)...lots of possibilities...learn how to do a barred F in mittens, play slide guitar with iceicles. Don't rule it out so fast, could be $$$ in it! |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: catspaw49 Date: 02 Mar 01 - 11:43 AM Hmmmmm.............And you could do a nice variant Rick....."Pickin' On Top Of The World"..... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: SINSULL Date: 02 Mar 01 - 12:22 PM Dave -punchline: he lost his hand (he was a surgeon) and his face and his wife. Honest I wasn't kidding. There are pictures of him with his nose growing on his forehead and a hole in the middle of his face.
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: catspaw49 Date: 02 Mar 01 - 12:42 PM Sinsull, I think he and his wife became closer actually, but I may be wrong. He's big on the motivational circuit. Here's a brief story with a couple of pictures. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: SINSULL Date: 02 Mar 01 - 02:20 PM You're right Spaw. I had him confused with another survivor. Anyone know how you sneeze without a nose? Or breathe for that matter? |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Biskit Date: 02 Mar 01 - 02:41 PM ;0) |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Ebbie Date: 02 Mar 01 - 05:32 PM Methinks Rick protests too much. What else is he hiding? Ebbie |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Amergin Date: 02 Mar 01 - 06:08 PM A folksinger at the top of the world...scary thought it is.... |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Barbara Date: 02 Mar 01 - 09:21 PM Yah, 'spaw is right, I've got a several relations that have been there, and one that is there still. Of course they didn't find him for 75 years, and by then he was pretty much one with the mountain... Don't catch me up in those thin air places, either, but the daughter has hankerings, and is out getting climbing lessons from the family. Now that the dust has settled and the book deals have been cut, (there are 7 new books that I know of) I can probably say that my SO's grandfather -- the guy that coined the phrase "Because it's there" -- died up there in '24. But I'm with Rick. "Because it's there" seems like a good reason to have a good look from the bottom instead of the top. Blessings, Barbara |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: catspaw49 Date: 02 Mar 01 - 09:37 PM It sounds as if the girl is serious!!! AND......For those of you wondering if Barbara's daughter has the talent for many things and the desire and drive to succeed, may I invite you to read this article! Very nice story Barbara. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Barbara Date: 03 Mar 01 - 01:40 AM Thanks, 'spaw. I didn't even know our local paper was on line. Do you ever think about getting a life in meatspace? Love and blessings, Barbara |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: katlaughing Date: 03 Mar 01 - 02:37 AM Wow, that is a really neat article, Spaw, and Barbara. She sounds like a wonderful daughter and she must keep you busy! Thanks for sharing with us, kat |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Naemanson Date: 03 Mar 01 - 06:04 AM Hey Barbara, neat article. You've got a lot to be proud of in that kid. And don't be pushing Spaw to go get a life. He wouldn't have time to play with us here in the 'cat! I'm afraid "because it's there" isn't enough of a reason for me to go up a mountain. Unfortunately I would go if I could "because I haven't seen it yet". I was always the guy who had to see what was coming next down the road. And soon I will do that again. Watch for my next thread this month. It's vacation planning time! |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Barbara Date: 03 Mar 01 - 10:22 AM Actually, the family story is that Mallory spoke that famous line in exasperation. After a two hour lecture on the plans for the next expedition, a little old lady in the front of the room raised her hand and asked him, " So, why do you want to climb Everest, anyway?" The most recent book about GM includes some of his speeches about climbing, and they are quite romantic in a Victorian way. It has a better answer for the question 'why'. Do you suppose they will ask about us, why did we spend endless hours sitting in front of our computers? Blessings, Barbara |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Peter T. Date: 03 Mar 01 - 11:15 AM I saw the PBS special the other night, The Search for Mallory -- it was rebroadcast in Canada -- and apart from the dreary voiceover by Rebecca deMornay, I found it moving, particularly as a Buddhist, with the one or two little scenes at the temple near base camp. I think it is funny that after 50 years, Mallory's failure to make the summit is more famous than Hillary's success. I wonder if it means that the whole genre of romantic conquest has undergone a shift: though the resurgence of interest in Shackleton is pretty old fashioned. The technical scenes (the ladder now at the last hurdle and the rest) were so concrete, and had a kind of terrible beauty about them. The photographs of Mallory's body are surely now central icons of some strange 20th century ritual struggle. I now end my classes on Romantic Environmentalism with them. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Susan A-R Date: 03 Mar 01 - 09:44 PM The IMAX film was close enough for me. "Best of Outside" a bunch of articles from OUtside Magazine is good. some serious stuff (including Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air and Into the Wild, also a good one) as well as an amazing piece on Ferret Legging (and now for something completely different.) I love this place. Susan |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: bill\sables Date: 04 Mar 01 - 08:19 AM Sad News, Rick Fielding died in the fourth chapter in a blizard on Everest Bill |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Rick Fielding Date: 04 Mar 01 - 01:31 PM Damn! I knew I'd never make it to the top! The Late Rick Fielding |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: catspaw49 Date: 04 Mar 01 - 02:17 PM Gonna' be kinda' tough to make that gig tonight huh? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Peter T. Date: 04 Mar 01 - 05:23 PM 'Climb Every Mountain, Ford Every Stream, Follow Every Rainbow, Till You Find Your Dream, A Dream That Will Need, All the Love You Can Geeve (What is a Geeve?), For As Long As You Leave!!!" (Sing-Along-Rick Fielding!!!) yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Rick Fielding on Everest From: Lonesome EJ Date: 04 Mar 01 - 06:03 PM After they found Rick in a snowdrift I heard it took three Sherpas to pry the Martin from his frozen fingers. When it came free at last it was said to have emitted a perfect Dminor. Did anyone ever read The White Spider about the first Eiger ascents? If you enjoyed Into Thin Air you'll like that one. The movie K2 is also a great true survival story about the world's toughest climb. |
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