Bachar Portrait (Photo By Karl Baba )Renowned climber John Bachar was found dead at the base of the Dike Wall near his home in Mammoth Lakes, California on Sunday, July 5. Environmentalist and outdoorsman Auden Schendler wrote the following eulogy after hearing of Bachars death.As a recreational rock climber and Replica Franck Muller watches mountaineer, I’ve always seen my work on environmental issues as a natural extension of that passion for the outdoors, and also part of a long tradition: climbers and mountaineers have a long history of moving from their sometimes solipsistic, self-involved, and meaningless-by-definition sport into hugely important and weighty work, often in the environmental field.
Names that come to mind include Yvon Chouinard, a shy and soft-spoken dirtbag climber and gear inventor who later founded Patagonia and became one of the leading thinkers, philanthropists, and spokesmen on sustainability. David Brower, the pioneering American mountaineer and tenth mountain soldier who ran the Sierra Club and defined modern Replica Zenith watches environmentalism; Ed Hillary, whose mission in life and identity was tied as much to helping Himalayan villagers as summiting Everest for the first time; and of course John Muir, who was first and foremost an alpinist. Today, we have Greg Mortensen, Peter Metcalf, and many others working on important environmental and human issues. This is not to indict those who were, or are, simply, climbers.
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