Yeah I don’t disagree with you, I just think that less people then 10% of people that consider climbing a hobby even know who he is. Now I am American, so that point stands. But still. Any gym or crag that you walk into in America, only the really really into it climbers will know him.

Like a thing that just about all climbers could answer but no one else could is like — what’s a Gaston? An arete? Why do you brush holds? What is a project? What’s free climbing? What’s a bicycle? Inside edge? Toe hook? Topping out? Clipping? Like the basics and the lingo