Objects Database

'Friend'

Accession Number

550.2008.1

Object Name

'Friend'

Created

27/11/2008

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

27/11/2008

Brief Description

Home made 'Friend'. L shaped with rectangular hole in centre of long leg. Movable metal pole attached to wire figure of 8 loops which are attached to three levers at top.

Materials

aluminium alloy, steel

Dimensions

16(l) x 5(w) x 4(d)

Number Of Objects

Colour

silver

Provenance

'Friends' were the revolutionary camming device invented and brought to the rock climbing world by American climber Ray Jardine. Designed to 'cam' into cracks, often flared, they brought a whole new concept to safe passage over difficult terrain. Almost as revolutionary, Clive Roberts, an Irish friend of Mick Tighe's, made this one himself, though we think he might have been too scared to use it for real. Luckily, he gave it to our collection instead.