The rounded, potbellied cluster of monoliths have led to the collective imagination to see the same familiar forms in places separated by many miles away. The Ou Colom in Montserrat, the Morrano Egg or Egg San Cosme are cases similar to that I explained to the Pure displayed by geography English.
The April 23, 1951 the rope formed by climbers Peña Guara Huesca, Cabrero Homes get the top of the Egg of San Cosme. Two other climbers, Nogués and Lacoma can not follow their companions to the summit due to violent storm of rain and hail to be unleashed at that moment, forcing the top climbers to descend before his companions could complete climbing. From the Aragonese mountain environments are engaged praise given how difficult the climb, which had left the taste of success embodied climbers the likes of Seron Angel "the Arrow". The difficulty of climbing the describing the same "arrow" in these terms: " tried four times in 1947 the San Cosme Egg Vadiello, but there was no way to nail anything, despite which we got quite close " .
also received words of praise from the press, but a postscript on the information triggers the suspicion. The newspaper "New Spain " of Huesca, in its issue of April 29, six days after opening, the story ends with the following sentence:
" (... ) but the pins are recessed for anyone who wants to climb the Egg. Peña Guara, lavish, the yields "
The fact that the material is" hired "on the road directions for the rest of climbers makes some discomfort flow in mountain environments of the 50's. From Hill-Aragón, Tomás Tomás Ichaso club president at the time, has no bearing on the subject and write these lines in the internal newsletter of the club: " The technical details of the escalation does matter! What matters is that MOUNTAINEERS and ARAGONESES have fully succeeded where climbers from other regions had to break his intrepidity at the giant piedra.Para prove themselves as mountaineers scaled the "egg" and to teach his Aragonese without limitation, was won, wanted to do so, the day of St. George, patron saint of Aragon "
publishes the following form of climbing techniques:
Time spent: 31 hours, in five rounds.
Material: 39 mediums, 32-pin medium, 3 scarps, 1 rope of 60 meters, 50 meters 1 acre, 1 acre of 30 meters, 50 meters 1 sling. 
However, this step over the technical details of the climb was not followed by the Chairman of Hill-Climbing Aragón, Francisco Ramón Abella the "Cookies" (yes , which gives its name to the path of Fire ) than following the club's internal newsletter published an article entitled: "Peña Guara moves. But ... "
Referring to the daily news of New Spain, particularly to that last sentence I copied literally here, the" Cookies "argues that this culmination of information" is out something that I dare to call "climbing ethics" at least as many understand it. "
To explain the "but ..." their views on ethics, I draw the following paragraphs of his article:
" And here comes the "But ..." I deliberately wanted to take a couple of months (...) in order not to offend any sensitivities or cloud our admiration and congratulations to the "boars" climbers who got (...) the first step " San Cosme Egg "(...) "
" Having to make the descent in poor conditions, with wet ropes, pegs used on the climb must have been recovered by the latter, they were where they were "
" is precisely this "but" the result not just good, knowing that among the unwritten laws of climbing, one of them is bringing recovery of the pins, carabiners and ropes to the maximum possible. There is not itching to leave an iron nail to when you can take to ensure a rappel or if there is no choice. And the rope to continue, if you know and can ... rises. But providing "directions" about facilities that have not been requested is for most climbers a lack of ethics that could result in a disclaimer to the climbing easier. Just climbing is hard! And the more difficult, if possible, the more you struggle, the more you work and the greater the desire and the personal satisfaction once overcome reports "
" wrote the above in plan completely friendly and confident that will understand that we read that the main objective of these lines is only our desire to expose the Peña Guara climbers complete the ascent to the "egg" that had to stop because of water and hail impeding the recovery of the material. And we know that the boys climbing Group Peña Guara, our good friends will not take this wrong way "roll" as well as climbers know everything has been exposed, I felt it necessary to state for the information of the uninitiated "
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