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There are a lot but since they are fat, they don't get famous because not all of them can achieve something extraordinary heights

big guys on rock
john long
john gill
john dunne
john sherman
(lot of johns huh)
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eric stevenson
mark .... big red from canada
keenan conner, that boy ain't small
theres more.

So here is my Seth Tart story.

I lived in NC for two years, about ten minutes from where Seth was living. For the first year of living there I had not meet him becuase he had quit climbing, but he started again after a multi year break.

Seth started climbing with a crew of us that were doing some of the harder climbs at Moores, I was really just kind of getting into it. Seth would show us some secret stuff or some kind of hidden rarely or never repeated climbs.

Anyway, one day at the Hanging Garden(amazing cliff) Seth decided to climb a little and warms up on Zeus. For all of you who don't know, its one of the finest 13b's in the country. Maybe the best I have ever been on. He climbs it like its nothing on warm up. The man hasn't climbed in years and I think he was currently weighing in around 230 lbs. After the warm up and a long break he gets on Hercules (14a) and proceeds to four hang it or something. I was in pure shock. The guy is probably 6 foot 3 or 4 and weighs 220/230 and is warming up on 13b and 4 hanging 14a after a multi year break. Insane the guy has tendons made of steel.

I am an old crusty fat ex-climber who couldn't climb 5.12's unless I weighed in at less than 170 lbs. Back in those glory days, it served me better to concentrate on general fitness training which led to weight loss than to spend endless hours in the climbing gym trying the latest great trendy training trick.

Put this in another place that it was relavant: Andy R = 160, Chris S= 170, Klem = 170, Fred N = 167. None of these weights are "beastly". They just look like beasts compared to the 120-150 lb people they climb with.

Couldn't find John Dunne's weight, but he is the only one I would bank on being 200 or above.

edit/girls don't joke.

Dunne I think was 225....I heard that somewhere...maybe a climbing video? I am 205....I have only done one or two 12's in my life...I do think the little guys need to climb one day with us 200 lb'rs on their back....

just for fairness of course.

i'd rather be able to hold my ground in a bar fight then be picked up and tossed around.


also on the list
rogre bess
john brounough, that man climbed way harder than he looked. it was awesome to watch as a fellow "fat boy"
matt nasty

I'm 6.4, ~215, and I can do 5-12. That's 5 12packs a week.

I'm in shape.




Round's a shape, right?