Kim Carrigan (born in 1958) was

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's leading exponent of

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during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Carrigan put up several hundred new routes on crags around the country, in particular at

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, Victoria, where he was based for several years. He repeatedly extended the limits of Australian climbing, initially by

free climbing Free climbing is a form of rock climbing in which the climber may use climbing equipment such as ropes and other means of climbing protection, but only to protect against injury during falls and not to assist vertical or horizontal progress. Th ...

an old

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route ''Procul Harum'' to establish the first Australian climb graded 26 under the

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grading system. He went on to climb the first grade 27 (''Denim''), grade 28 (''Yesterday''), grade 29 (''India'') and grade 30 (''Masada''). All of these climbs are located at

. Later he moved to Switzerland and became a triathlete. In the Swiss alps he did some difficult first ascents with the famous Swiss climber Martin Scheel, e.g. ''Truth of human desire'' at the

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.Daniel Anker: Titlis, Spielplatz der Schweiz. AS Verlag, Zuerich 2001 p.66 Kim's current sport is

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. He now lives in

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where he has been successful in business; he part-owns and runs the Wild Breads / Sol Breads bakery supplying hundreds of retail outlets.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carrigan, Kim Australian rock climbers 1958 births Living people