The Gordon Park Crew, Matopos, Zimbabwe |
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The Gordon Park Crew
Camp Warden Skipper Knapman 19... Camp Warden Mike George 19.... Richard Morley 196.. Camp Warden Norman Scott 19.... Assistant Camp Commissioner Jack Carlisle 1978-81 Mike Brown 197.. Rob Hofmeyer 197.. Ian Stone 197.. Mark Fulton 197.. Brett Fulton 197.. Hylton Garriock 197.. Neil Palmer Jones 197.. Keith Savin 197.. Vaughn Brown 197.. Alan Savin 197.. Robert Forbes 197.. Peter Hartley 197.. Stan Wilson 197.. Simon Miller Cranko 197.. Craig Yeatman 197.. Andy Blundell 197.. Glen Crisp 197.. Vaughn Davies 197.. Havlock Mcneilage 197.. Graham Williams 197.. Graham Ross 197.. Barry Knight 197.. Luke Moloney 197.. Grant Dickinson 198.. Leon Wuyts 14/5/2006 Christopher Mackenzie Aug 2009 And who else?? and when?? and need a lota photos in 'ere! Salaried groundsmen: William Ndhlovu, Adam Moyo 198.. During a "Rolling Stone Challenge" Simon Miller-Cranko age 14 ran, up Shumbashaba in 15 minutes 17 seconds (or 17 minutes 15 seconds?), from the base - the granite spur that almost meets the tar road as it turns the corner to head down into the Mtjelelie Valley - to the top. Mark Fulton (Haas) who was captain of the Hamilton First Rugby team, came in second. 198.. Dennis Cunninham must have set the fastest drive from Gordon Park to the 8th Hall Bulawayo in his little grey Mazda truck in 10 minutes flat! I'm not sure if it was a 'Mercy' drive taking someone to hospital - perhaps someone who was also on the truck can remember? The fastest abseil down GP Rock... was either Savage or Brett... or could have been Haas in 3 seconds... or was it 7 seconds?? (the owner of this record will have to claim it!): 2/4/08 By the way the record that I remember for abseiling GP rock was 7 sec's. I did do it in that time once, but it was with only our scout group (7th/20th Famona) so was not recorded. I only managed it once (around 1978) and after several other attemps could never redo it! Ian Saunders. People who have abseiled Tortoise:- Vaughn & Crispie (once tried abseiling it upside down! The twits stood on the top of the square edge of the rock, and just like the "pro's", jumped out and down the side... only, they missed judged it, & instead of their feet bouncing against the rock and them going down normally... well, all we heard was this kackling of laughter & saw these 4 legs protruding up from the top edge & they were lying upside down against the rock face without saftey ropes & nothing but a few hundred feet overhang drop below them!!!) Dafydd Jones, Bruce Fletcher, Len Taylor, Gary De Jager  GP Crew - 21 years on
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