On closer inspection...

By ghost of mensforth -
If you look closely at photo 2 of the pyry there is much to be gleamed...
2 names,'Tony' and 'Steve' are clearly visible in tar. Notice also the 'tar' tracks going up the pyry as they have 'tarred a path' as they climbed up, much like a mountaineer puts hook things in the rock as they climb...
To the left of the unknown hooligan climbing the pyry you can see the tar track on its west side is more a tar smear/line because that side of the pyry was possibly the most popular side to climb:it was unusual for someone to try to conquer the pyry by climbing its south face. Hopefully one day we will have photos of the pyry from the north and east faces(yes photo 1 shows the east face, but this photo may have been taken before the discovery of 'tar') and can analyse the tar evidence there on...
I remember as a kid to be able to say you 'climbed the pyry' required you to have climbed itvia all vertices and all faces...'only then had you truely learned, grasshopper...'

Comments

  1. El PatronSunday, August 23, 2009 at 3:58:00 AM GMT

    The popular climbing faces were the side facing the shops and the side facing the scraggy field - why? Bacause you get a good run up before hitting the face. These faces were for novices - the most difficult face being the face siding onto the ramp itself. now - another factoid - climbing the pyry was easier on the apex's - climbing the flat face was another level of skill. The ruffian looking type in the photo is clearly a an embryo-climber as he is using the apex.

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  2. ghost of mensforthSunday, August 23, 2009 at 6:29:00 AM GMT

    Master, the edges are called 'vertices' not 'apex's...the apex it the point at the top where the four vertices meet...

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  3. The BosnianMonday, August 24, 2009 at 4:25:00 AM GMT

    Thanks Dr. Mensforth

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  4. ghost of mensforthMonday, August 24, 2009 at 5:09:00 PM GMT

    on even closer inspection the names of 2 other hooligans are visible:
    'Lokas' and 'Bri P'
    How shameful!

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