Paul Pritchard | Author
Paul Pritchard
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25.01.2022 Congratulations to Jessica J. Lee for winning the B/T with ‘Two Trees Make a Forest’ and well done to all those shortlisted!
24.01.2022 Big thx John Middendorf-the Deuce-big wall climber and designer for putting this film together and please support the Big Canopy Campout in whatever way you can. This time around, the international stage will be showcasing and raising funds for the last largest remaining tract of cool temperate rainforest in the world, Tasmania’s takayna/Tarkine. Go to Bob Brown Foundation to find out more. Thx also DMM Climbing for the support. Love your work. #takayna #protectthetarkine #protecttheforest #d4portaledges
24.01.2022 A lovely time at @thebigcanopycampout at #takanya / #tarkine Tasmania. This forest coup is slated for demolition and is is the most beautiful forest I’ve ever seen. @bobbrownfoundation @dmm_wales @mountainequipment #protectthetarkine
23.01.2022 Hi Friends, Please Vote in the #focusonabilityshortfilmfestival for my boy Eli's film Rite Of Passage: It documents a 12 year old Eli taking his damaged dad to a Himalayan mountain. It's a lovely film full of cheeky humour. By voting you go into a draw to win a $50 iTunes Voucher, and you give Eli a leg up to become a film maker. Voting is open until midnight tonight! Link in bio...
18.01.2022 The Big Wall speakers at the symposium Twid helped organise at PYB in the 80s. Big Wall John Middendorf, Kevin Thaw, Jerry Gore Alex Huber, Michel Galagos, Paul Pablo Pritchard, Andy Perkins Steph Davies Andy Kirkpatrick Jason Smith. When it was cool to took your shirts into your trousers!
17.01.2022 Good on ya DMM Climbing!
17.01.2022 Carrie-Ann’s garden...
17.01.2022 3 years ago today we were in Broken Hill on the World Expeditions Lowest to Highest Ride. What a trip. This is with Greg who sadly isn’t with us anymore.
16.01.2022 The clearest view from the top of Hartz Mountain I’ve seen. 1 & 2,Precipitous Bluff - a remote mass of peaks were we’re heading next year. Trips to the SW Wilderness take a lot of planning with #hemiplegia 3 flowering cushion plant and 4 Conrad checking out the crags above Ladies Tarn. MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT Smitten Merino DMM Climbing KEEN Footwear Australia #disabledadventurers #disabilityawareness
16.01.2022 Eight great films by the next generations (and the past)!
15.01.2022 Many thanks Hazel! If you’re not already turned on to the Curious Climber Podcast Hazel and Mina are amassing a collection of really interesting interviews. These are not your usual tales of derring-do rather insightful probes into the minds of some pretty special people. MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT DMM Climbing The Alpine Club www.paulpritchard.com.au
15.01.2022 Hi friends, we have until midnight (Aus EST). So if you have not seen this film or heard of the #focusonabilityshortfilmfestival you can view it and vote at following the link in my bio.
14.01.2022 Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer Below A Sea Of Cloud. With Melinda Oogjes
13.01.2022 Found this fantastic swimming hole. #lostfalls #tasmaniagram
12.01.2022 I love volunteering for the Human Library. It creates a more equitable society one kid at a time (or one employee at a time as we go to workplaces as well as schools). In the Hobart Human Library we tell our (sometimes painful) stories of exclusion, discrimination and prejudice to small groups of students. Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of laughter too. In the library there is the whole swathe of (for whatever reason) the marginalised and unnecessarily judged. We are tr...ained in storytelling and have a keen eye if our story is affecting someone. There are always fantastic ‘Librarians’ on hand to make sure everyone is safe. The effect is often profound! A Fairer World #afairerworld #socialjustice #differencesarebeautiful #difference #disabilityawareness #disabilityrights
09.01.2022 Here’s some photos from my Point to Pinnacle yesterday taken by the indomitable @Pete Walsh . It began to rain about 2km from the summit of #kunanyi so it was the perfect day for 4hrs hrs steep cycling in my ‘wheelchair’. I think I’ll talk to the organisers about a Wheelchair category :))) #p2p20 Greenspeed Trikes Smitten Merino MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT DMM Climbing #disbledadventurers
06.01.2022 I can’t thank you enough for all you hard work out there activists. Can’t wait to see you up in takanya!
05.01.2022 Dear friends, I'm excited to let you know that I've just submitted a final draft of my new book The Mountain Path to Vertebrate. Here is an excerpt from the cha...pter Pain to whet your appetite: My experience on The Totem Pole taught me to be unwavering in the face of difficulty and hardship. It taught me the importance of total acceptance of the way things are. At this very moment. The more we can accept the pain, be it physical or emotional, the more we understand that it will pass. Nothing is fixed and unchanging from the pain in our bodies or minds to our existence as a physical body, which will, eventually, become compost. This even goes for the seemingly permanent rocks of The Mountain, which are in a continuous process of erosion. Everything comes and goes, impermanence is the natural law, the way of the universe. And everything means everything, including mental conditions such as pain and pleasure, which are nothing but constructs of the mind. Daily pains remind me of this lesson. On rising in the morning, often I will fall on the floor on my way to the bathroom; I go down like a felled tree, so these spills often result in bruising and grazing. I catch my spastic elbow painfully on the door jamb and take a shower, which is always a dangerous operation. I laboriously get dressed, with one hand and teeth, and teeter at the top of the stairs I take my anti-convulsant before I have a fit and then munch a mouthful dry toast. This I follow with a nibble of butter because it is too difficult to spread with the knife. But, I have realised that facing these hardships is as much a gift as it is a test. These hardships are considerably more than many people face, and considerably less than others. Every single one of us struggles in a multitude of ways and we must look on these times of struggle as precious to us. I look upon my daily struggles as a gift because I have to gird my resolve to make the most of each day otherwise, I would never get out of bed. And this resolve includes giving thanks for the many good things in my life, the health that I have (it could be a lot worse), my wonder-filled children, my lovely partner and my wealth of friends. In this way I can see suffering as a privilege and transform daily hardships into a kind of blessing. A most important aspect of going through our own suffering is that we in turn find it easier to relate to other beings’ suffering because we have been through it ourselves. Each time we feel pain it acts as a reminder, bringing us back down to earth. Our own personal pain can increase our ability to feel compassion and undergoing hardship, if we are mindful about what that hardship entails, can lead to empathy if we let it. I'll keep you informed of the publication date. Best, Paul. Vertebrate Publishing MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT DMM Climbing KEEN Footwear Australia AMP Foundation
02.01.2022 Thank you Ian for alerting me to this very moving tribute. Jan lived near me in Wales though our paths never crossed.
