Climbers

Mike Boyd is a Scottish climber who rose to fame via YouTube. Mike has a YouTube channel where he attempts to learn new skills (e.g. solving the Rubik's Cube, breaking a glass with his voice). One of his challenges was climbing related, but after completing the challenge he continued to climb and set himself new climbing-related challenges, while documenting them on a dedicated channel.

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/

Mike was the subject of the song Michael from Mountains by Joni Mitchell. [3]

References

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

[2] Michael from Mountains by Joni Mitchell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsSrvYMvx2E

[3] Glen Denny , Steve Roper Yosemite in the Sixties. United States: Patagonia, 2013.

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/

British mountaineer, statistician and economist. Played a pivotal role in organising the logistics of the successful 1953 Mt. Everest expedition. Continued to climb, often with his wife Sally, into his 80s.

1867-1947. A self-styled 'Professor of Adventure' who lived in a cave in Borrowdale and led camping and climbing trips in the vicinity of Keswick. [1]

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/millican_dalton_-_the_professor_of_adventure-13626