After getting a taste for climbing on a school activity, Stuart somehow convinced his father to buy him a rope for his 14th birthday. By the time he had left school in 1987 he’d already spent two summers dirtbagging at Arapiles, Australia, had a season in the New Zealand Alps, and was guiding school kids up multi pitch routes at Arapiles and Moonarie.
In 1989 after having achieved his climbing dreams at Moonarie he felt there may be more to life than climbing….but he couldn’t quite work out what that “more to life was”…..so the best remedy was to continue climbing, predominantly at Moonarie until he worked it out.
He’s still working on it and occasionally reckons he’s close to working it out …. but in the meantime he is still frothing about climbing and appreciates the fact that his kids and fellow Moonarie journeymen are frothing with him as we work our way to come to terms with this absurd existence.
Contributions to Common Climber:
In 1989 after having achieved his climbing dreams at Moonarie he felt there may be more to life than climbing….but he couldn’t quite work out what that “more to life was”…..so the best remedy was to continue climbing, predominantly at Moonarie until he worked it out.
He’s still working on it and occasionally reckons he’s close to working it out …. but in the meantime he is still frothing about climbing and appreciates the fact that his kids and fellow Moonarie journeymen are frothing with him as we work our way to come to terms with this absurd existence.
Contributions to Common Climber:
- GOD - Far into the future, climbing is taken to its next transcendental level.