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* 1961 North Face of Mount Edith Cavell, Canadian Rockies, Canada with Yvon Chouinard
* 1961 Beckey-Chouinard Route on South Howser Tower, Bugaboos, Canada with Yvon Chouinard and Dan Doody
This evolution in climbing ethics has been largely attributed to the efforts of Yvon Chouinard and many others, who pioneered the " leave no trace " ethic in climbing.
In 1966, Yvon Chouinard led a dramatic redesign of ice axes, working with a reluctant manufacturer Charlet to develop a 55-cm ice axe with a dramatically curved pick.
* 1961 North Face, IV 5. 7, First ascent by Yvon Chouinard, Fred Beckey and Dan Doody.
Black Diamond Equipment ’ s history dates back to the late 1950 ’ s, when climber Yvon Chouinard began hand-forging pitons and selling them from the trunk of his car in Yosemite Valley.
In early 1989, after several product-liability lawsuits and a continued lack of profitability, Yvon Chouinard placed the company in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Some, such as Yvon Chouinard, made and sold climbing equipment in the camp's parking lot, laying the foundation for successful businesses later.
In 1972, when clean climbing became an issue in the US, Yvon Chouinard began manufacturing chocks made specifically for rock climbing, with the familiar wedge shape still in use today.
Within several years, another well-known Yosemite climber Yvon Chouinard began to commercially manufacture metal chocks, or nuts, in California.
It was designed by Tom Frost and Yvon Chouinard in 1959, and manufactured by Chouinard Equipment in the 1960s.
* Lost Arrow-designed by John Salathé and Yvon Chouinard, now made by Black Diamond, are a hot-forged, tapered piton that performs well in medium-size cracks.
Yvon Deschamps was the host, and appeared alongside Normand Chouinard, Normand Brathwaite, Pauline Martin and Michèle Deslauriers.
Yvon Chouinard ( born November 9, 1938 ) is a rock climber, environmentalist and outdoor industry businessman, noted for his contributions to climbing, climbing equipment and the outdoor gear business.
In the ' 50s and ' 60s pioneering rock-climbers Royal Robbins and Yvon Chouinard learned to climb at Stoney Point.
As an early proponent of boltless, pitonless clean climbing, he, along with Yvon Chouinard, was instrumental in changing the climbing culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s by encouraging the use and preservation of the natural features of the rock.
With Tom Frost, Chuck Pratt and Yvon Chouinard.
He was accompanied by Yvon Chouinard, Reg Lake, John Wasserman and Jackson Frischman.
This was followed by: the wildly overhanging Leaning Tower, also done with Denny and still one of the most popular big-wall routes in Yosemite ; the North Face of the ' Rostrum ' just outside Yosemite Valley, again with Denny ( a notoriously hard and spectacular later one-day testpiece as a free climb ); and the beautiful and isolated 2500 foot face of Mount Watkins across from Half Dome, done with Yvon Chouinard and Chuck Pratt ( with ' hard man ' Harding famously refusing water on the parched last days of the climb to save it for those doing the final leads ).
Some felt, such as historian Steve Roper, English Mountain magazine editor Ken Wilson, and southern Californians like Robbins and Yvon Chouinard, that Harding's flamboyant willingness to use expansion bolts took some of the adventure away from climbing.
Watkins, Yosemite, CA, with Yvon Chouinard and Chuck Pratt.
Fred Beckey and Yvon Chouinard ( founder of the Patagonia clothing company ) established new routes on several spires.
FA by Yvon Chouinard, Dick Dorworth, Chris Jones, Lito Tejada-Flores and Douglas Tompkins ( all USA ).

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For Yvon Gouet this behavior was not in compliance with the parliamentary system.
Originally developed by Yvon Rozijn, AWeb was shipped with version 3. 9 of AmigaOS, and is now open source.
Jozef Cleber a Dutch musician that arrived with a patron of 46 persons of Philharmonic Orchestra under direction of Yvon Baarspul was sent by the Netherlands Government to help the Indonesian Government for music development in Jakarta.
His fight with Yvon Durelle in particular was of note: defending his world light heavyweight title in Montreal, he was felled three times in round one, and once again in round five, but then dropped Durelle in round 10 and won by a knockout in the 11th.
* August 12-In a rematch of their 1958 bout, Archie Moore retains his world Light Heavyweight championship, with a three round knockout win of Yvon Durelle, in Montreal, Canada.
The French historian Yvon Lacaze has argued against the popular image of Bonnet as a slick and amoral opportunist, and instead attributes Bonnet's views about avoiding another war with Germany to his memories of service in the trenches of World War I.
Yvon provided the subject for compositional sketches for his students, for example, " The Assassination of Julius Caesar ", for which he specified how it should be done: " Caesar covers his head with his toga.
He was replaced as leader by Yvon Brochu, who merged the party with the Union Nationale on May 31, 1975.
Yvon then built a bigger hall called l ' Orangeraie in the Manoir with a scenic view of the manoir grounds and the Richelieu river.
In 2006, Deschamps toured with his wife of 35 years in the show ' Judi et Yvon font une scène ' where they shared the stage equally for the first time.
In 1968 she was part of the extraordinarily successful revue L ' Osstidcho, followed the next year by L ' Osstidchomeurt with Robert Charlebois, Yvon Deschamps and Mouffe.
In Paris he took drawing courses with Adolphe Yvon and studied painting under Carolus Duran who in 1877 selected Beckwith and John Singer Sargent to help him with a mural for the Palais du Luxembourg.

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The constitutional Prime Minister, Yvon Neptune languished in jail for over a year, accused of complicity in an alleged massacre in Saint-Marc.
In November 1937, Ribbentrop was placed in a highly embarrassing situation when his forceful advocacy of the return of the former German colonies led to the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos offering to open talks on returning the former German colonies, in return for which the Germans would make binding commitments to respect their borders in Central and Eastern Europe.
At the trade deadline, the Whalers first year General Manager Eddie Johnston made the first in a series of destructive trades by sending franchise goaltender Mike Liut to the Washington Capitals for center Yvon Corriveau.
On February 21, Armand Bois, the former interim leader, was expelled from the party for saying at the February 4 leadership convention that Yvon Dupuis ’ s entourage included members of the Montreal underworld.
MP Yvon Godin's personal popularity ensured dominance throughout the riding for the NDP.
Adolphe Yvon ( 1817 – 1893 ) was a French painter known for his paintings from the Napoleonic Wars.
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron is an animated series for television created by Christian Tremblay and Yvon Tremblay and produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Program Services.
Yvon Deschamps, CQ ( born July 31, 1935 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Quebec author, actor, comedian and producer best known for his monologues.
The latter played a special role in his career, because that is where the Yvon Deschamps " character " and his " good boss " role appeared for the first time.
Yvon Deschamps ' monologues were known for their unrelenting irony, and often buried a message that was completely opposite to what the stage character was saying literally.
In the beginning, Yvon Deschamps ' never-named " character " was distinguished by his spectacular naïvete, which served as a vehicle for Deschamps to tackle delicate subjects such as racism.
* Mystère-Music Composed by René Dupéré & Benoît Jutras, transcription for piano and voices by Jean-Francois Brissette, music engraving and book design by Yvon Hubert, 1997.
Yvan Ponton and Yvon Barette ( who played forward Jean-Guy Drouin and goaltender Denis Lemieux, the two French-Canadian players in the film ) dubbed their own voices for the film's translated French version.
He ran again for the leadership of the party at its convention on February 4, 1973, but was defeated by former federal Liberal cabinet minister Yvon Dupuis.
The 1984 European Championship main tournament was a short experience for Simonsen, as he broke his leg in a challenge by Yvon Le Roux in Denmark's first match against France.

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