Thought we'd just follow up our earlier post on Florine/Hirayama with an update. Looks like they regained the title, with a time of 2:43:33, two minutes faster than the Hubers. So great, good job. Slap on the back. Woo, hoo. Lets get to the real point of this post; the Hubers, hair flowing in the breeze, shirtless, in leather pants. Seems the brothers are a bit offended that we would think they're Euros with bad taste in clothes and hair. Because sure there's that, but there's so much more:
The Hubers were unhappy with depictions of them by Yosemite habitués as shirtless, leather-pants-wearing rock-star types, complete with entourage and groupies. In fact, Thomas Huber is a husband and father of three. His younger brother, a certified physicist, comes off as serene and intellectual. Many of those who met them described them as friendly, down-to-earth folk. The movie about their record attempt, "To The Limit," depicts them as complex, transcendent personalities for whom climbing is more a spiritual quest than a competition.
Boys, you reap what you sow. Nobody forced you to wear chaps. Face it, you wear leather pants and go shirtless, you suffer the repercussions. Read the article. Good stuff.. You also find out Florine thinks he's Lightening McQueen, a cartoon character. Via SF Gate.
