Climbers

Ray Jardine is an American rock climber. He is well known for inventing Cams which ushered in a revolution in trad climbing, making climbs that were previously unprotectable possible.

Ray put his new invention to excellent use, establishing routes such as The Phoenix in 1977, then one of the hardest trad routes in the world.

More controversially he was also involved in chipping on El Capitan, in particular in an early attempt to free climb The Nose he chipped holds on what is now known as The Jardine Traverse as well as purposefully using pegs to enlarge peg scars and make free climbing those pitches easier.

References

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/C0V_Im8tneX/

Henry Barber:

Steve was one of the most visionary climbers I ever climbed with. He put up hard climbs that were ahead of their time by a decade. I was known more for scary onsights, but his climbs compared to mine were futuristic by 20 years harder than anything I did. It took over a decade for Steve’s 'Psycho Roof' in Eldorado Canyon to be repeated. [2]

References

[1] Obituary by John Bragg, 2019 https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/13201215496

[2] https://www.facebook.com/rockandice/posts/steve-wunsch-one-of-the-best-climbers-in-the-world-in-the-1960s-and-1970s-died-f/10157714840455030/

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20230202012326/https://www.rockandice.com/climbing-news/celebrating-the-life-of-steve-wunsch-by-your-own-lights/