Peregrinator
Hooded On A Hill
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Stuponfucious said:No, seriously.
This isn't communicating much to me.
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Stuponfucious said:No, seriously.
Peregrinator said:This isn't communicating much to me.
Stuponfucious said:Yeah, that's what I've been thinking about "because it's there."
Can any climbers come up with a real answer or is that it?
I mean, I could see climbing a mountain before anyone else has done it, but going up there in teams the same route hundreds of others have climbed successfully? Where's the fun in that? Yeah sure, it's kinda dangerous and I guess you could die, but what do you accomplish, besides suffocating millions of brain cells, which ironically leaves you with even fewer faculties than when you first decided to go up?
crazybbwgirl said:OMG - my daughter better not be doing anything like what's in those pictures!!!!!
atmas said:I have a question: How come tall climbers can reach higher holds more easily, but don't claim to have an advantage?
(Socratic irony).
Think I'll get the grigri out and do some roped soloing this weekend. Yup.
Do we know this person? The slab looks so familiar.Peregrinator said:
atmas said:Do we know this person? The slab looks so familiar.
Peregrinator said:It's a way of challenging yourself. When Reinhold Messner first climbed E without gas, he opened the eyes of the entire climbing world to a new kind of challenge, what he called "climbing by fair means," or not leveling the playing field with technology instead of personal ability and courage. The folks who climb without oxygen are of an elite class of athletes similar to tour de France riders or Olympic endurance athletes.
Once you've climbed something of a certain level of challenge and succeeded, you tend to want to try the next harder thing.
patient1 said:I read "In to Thin Air".
Is that the philosophy that prevents everybody from having radios & Gps units up there in case of emergency, or has that changed now as a result of the tragedy?
sexy-girl said:mountain climbing books are cool ... "touching the void" (i read it before the film) gives a good sense of why people climb
i'm just starting to read "the white spider" quite an old fashioned climbing book
patient1 said:I read "In to Thin Air".
Is that the philosophy that prevents everybody from having radios & Gps units up there in case of emergency, or has that changed now as a result of the tragedy?