My Daddy disappeared for a couple of days to go and have some 'Man Time' with his mate Benno. They were up for a bit of a mission so had planned to go up an Australian classic climb called Ozymandias at Mt Buffalo. Below is a photo of the hugemungous 270 meter climb. It goes up the centre of the photo starting down in the gully then directly up through the orange rock and overhangs to the top. I think Daddy and Benno are crazy (not really, I love climbing but Mummy stresses about it. She always goes on and on about how hard it was in New Zealand!)
Below Dad blows off after a number of failed attempts. He and Benno made so many decisions and then couldn't do the climb because the weather was terrible. Daddy thinks this is funny on the horrendous walk out but now I just kick his head around in the back yard!
Here is Benno on the way back down after the first attempt! Cool clouds we don't get them much in the Alice. He looks shagged after his fight with all of Daddy's small nut! Ben had some of his own nuts too!
My Daddy looked like an Xmas tree with all that stuff hanging off him just before they abseiled into the gorge. I can't wait for Xmas! Then there is Ben with the Pig! It really does not look like a pig but that was the big bag they had all their stuff in for sleeping and staying dry.
Benno is rapping down into the clouds, it looks really slippery and hard to find things like the rappel station. Dad didn't find one of them on the way down so had to improvise (that mustn't be too hard cos Mummy does sooooooo much improv in da kitchen. dad must be soft!). Then the last one is all the hardware that they took on the climb they didn't get too do. Daddy says it was soooooo heavy!
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