{"id":7446,"date":"2011-04-04T16:16:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T21:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=7446"},"modified":"2017-11-19T02:13:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T21:13:35","slug":"fred-beckey-coming-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/fred-beckey-coming-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Beckey&#8230; coming to town!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7447\" title=\"Fred_Beckey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fred_Beckey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"557\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a climber in or near these parts, mark the evening of 18 April (two weeks from today) to take in a talk by, slide show (yup, the old-fashioned kind) with, and a film about climbing legend <span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong>Fred Beckey<\/strong><\/span>, sponsored by the Manitoba Section of the Alpine Club of Canada. Known variously as &#8220;the original dirt-bag climber,&#8221; &#8220;old man of the mountains,&#8221; &#8220;the climbing bum&#8217;s climbing bum&#8221; and a variety of other colourful monikers, Fred Beckey boasts an impressive resume of alpine first ascents second to few\u2014and at the age of 87 (not a typo) he&#8217;s still climbing!<\/p>\n<p>The Fred Beckey gig will take place at the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre at 340 Provencher Boulevard in Winnipeg (more details still to come).\u00a0In the meantime, read more about Fred Beckey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historylink.org\/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&amp;file_id=9373\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>; watch a 5-minute film piece that <em>The New York Times<\/em> featured two years ago <a href=\"http:\/\/video.nytimes.com\/video\/2008\/12\/15\/sports\/golf\/1194835655194\/the-old-man-of-the-mountains.html?ref=sports\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Image: a Patagonia climbing poster featuring Fred from a few years back.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Manitoba If you&#8217;re a climber in or near these parts, mark the evening of 18 April (two weeks from today) to take in a talk by, slide show (yup, the old-fashioned kind) with, and a film about climbing legend Fred Beckey, sponsored by the Manitoba Section of the Alpine Club of Canada. Known variously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,11,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15588,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions\/15588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}