Talk:Don Whillans

message: Do we have "downs" in the north of England? I think not.
Well change it then! (Sheffield is only 'North Midlands' anyway :-)) The paragraph as a whole doesn't really flow, since the next second our man is apparently climbing in the greater ranges with young Bonnington. Linuxlad 14:28, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
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message: We now see the silliness of merging climbing hut and alpine hut :-) Propose demerge! Linuxlad 22:38, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: climbing hut

message: I deleted the following from the article:
::Also another classic piece of Whillans' razor sharp wit was when he was in the company of some German climbers who happily announced after a victory on the football field by West Germany over England that "We (Germany) have beaten you today at your national game". Whillans prompty, and very cooly, retorted that, "So what, we (the British) have beaten you at YOUR national "game", TWICE!" (1914-18 & 1939-45).
This is clearly an urban legend garbled from the actual source:  before the 1966 World Cup soccer final of England vs. West Germany (where I think West Germany was favored to win, although it was England that won) an editorial in a prominent British newspaper (The Times of London?) said something like (this from memory -- not from the original, but reading about it somewhere): "If, as seems likely, Germany defeats us in our national sport tomorrow, let us remember that twice in this century we have defeated them at their national sport."  (I.e. war).  137.82.188.68 (talk) 05:32, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: But he is meant to have said, of Harrisons Rocks, when someone asked him if he wanted a copy of the guide-book for half-a-crown, that he wouldn't give half-a-crown for the crag?... Bob aka Linuxlad (talk) 21:26, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
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message: This page is horrible. It is in need of a serious rewrite. Even this talk section reveals problems. Even Don's friends would say that this page doesn't do the man justice, not that he was in need. That the CPF gets mentioned and has a link to Freney misses the fact of where the route is located. If the contributors are going to quote Patey, they should really take the time instead to summarize Whillans biography instead. I'm wasting my time telling you this. 143.232.210.38 (talk) 16:05, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
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message: Does anybody think the Yeti sighting he had in 1968 (which he recounted on a episode of In Search of...) is worth mentioning? Rja13ww33 (talk) 22:18, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
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