Climbers

References

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/C6G7ixoLsDY/

Miguel Riera was a Spanish climber, known for his role in developing deep water soloing (or psicobloc) in to a discipline in it's own right.

References

[1] https://www.climbing.com/people/interview-miquel-riera-on-the-birth-of-deep-water-soloing/

[2] https://gripped.com/news/legendary-climber-miguel-riera-passes-away-from-cancer/

[3] https://www.instagram.com/p/DBHMoqySHpu/

Creator of UKBouldering.com.

Mike call was a prolific maker of climbing films in the pre-digital era, documenting many of the big names in US climbing in the late 90s and early 2000s.

Mike was also involved with Pusher holds, including shaping one of the first 'macros' with The Boss. [1]

References

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/BUYCVJjg-Lw/

References

[1] https://jukebox.uaf.edu/interviews/2878

It was mid-summer, a time when afternoons were warm and nights cool. Graham, seventeen at the time, and his partners Gib Lewis (18) and Rick Accomazzo (18) racked their hexes and nuts in Camp 4 under a thick haze of campfire smoke. “There might have been some beer or maybe something else (I’m guessing pot),” they started joking about making up their Italian names. “Rick didn’t have to do anything with his name because he was Italian. We decided to call Gib Lewis Antonio Gibbo. And I’d always really admired Emilio Comici, so, you know, I’m Michelangelo Gramicci.” [1]

References

[1] https://gripped.com/profiles/interview-with-mike-graham-founder-of-gramicci-and-stone-master-press/