Climbers

Eric has been described by John Sherman as

Just one tendon, one hundred twenty-three pounds fully clothed and five-foot-ten inches tall who was ahead of his time with the grunge homeless look.

Eric established most of the hard and tall boulders in Moore’s Wall NC and many hard highball boulders and top-rope problems at Devil's Lake WI. He continues to climb hard, even after suffering a heart attack he recently repeated Tiny (V11) at Moon Rock in Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT at 65 yrs of age.

When not climbing rocks he is an artist, or is that vice versa?

References

[1] https://www.climbing.com/news/eric-zschiesche/

[2] https://www.ericzschiesche.com

[3] http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/520439/Eric-Zschiesche-Appreciation-Thread

References

[1] https://gripped.com/profiles/interview-after-bombe-bleu-5-15b-erwan-legrand-shows-us-how-to-climb-barefoot/

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/behind_the_scenes_esther_foster-16737

the first 70s free climber--in the mid-60s (Roger Breedlove)

Strong and fast climber responsible for first ascents or first free ascent of many short and mid-length Yosemite classics 1960-1965. His focus almost entirely on free climbing was unusual for the time. Sacherer mainly climbed at weekends as he was studying full-time for a PhD in particle physics at the University of California, Berkeley and most of his significant ascents were routes achievable in one day. Jim Bridwell reported Sacherer discussed the possibility of climbing The Nose of El Capitan in a day and he made early attempts at freeing the Stoveleg Cracks on this route.

He migrated to Switzerland and worked at CERN in Geneva from 1970 to 1978.

References

[1] http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/268647/Frank-Sacherer-1940-1978

[2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MOOd3ocAAAAJ&hl=en

[3] http://www.edhartouni.net/nose-in-a-day.html

References

[1] Interview with Xa White for UKClimbing.com, October 2023 https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/freja_shannon_talks_risk_craic_and_brit_rock-15391

[2] https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/my_favourite_route_-_fall_of_wossils_e5_6b_at_the_burren_ailladie-16071