I was a climber in my young days and escaped serious injury although a few partners had quite serious life changing impact. The prob of being a "radical free climber" like this fellow is there is no plan for the unknown. Bird shits on your head? Nice clump of rock comes right off in your hand? Climber above you rains down a piss or a shit? = "flight time" we call it. With no rope or gear the fall does not kill you it's that sudden stop then someone has to come and get your fool body down the mountain.
I did a lot of bouldering in my youth, then a great deal of "free solo". People can be downright fascist about what *you* should be allowed to do, so I never told anyone I was going, and went alone.
Can be dangerous if you don't think things out... which you have to do while hanging on your fingers. Biggest danger is finding you can't proceed, and having climb back down. You have eyes near your hands, not near your feet.
Tried technical (ropes, pitons) with some "friends"... holly shit those idiots were gonna get me killed!
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And I'm sure the ice would keep falling out as well. Yeah, that's my only problem with this leisure time activity.
Big balls and a complete lack of functional intelligence. The best ones get to the top of whatever, then fall off while posing for a selfie.
Yeah, big balls but no brains.
I was a climber in my young days and escaped serious injury although a few partners had quite serious life changing impact. The prob of being a "radical free climber" like this fellow is there is no plan for the unknown. Bird shits on your head? Nice clump of rock comes right off in your hand? Climber above you rains down a piss or a shit? = "flight time" we call it. With no rope or gear the fall does not kill you it's that sudden stop then someone has to come and get your fool body down the mountain.
You just have to be clever with were you put it, Chief. And, to be sure, no... you don't want to know. :p
Did rock climbing years ago.
Always with a fellow climber, harness, ropes, carabiners, etc.
Slipped a couple times but never dropped more than a couple feet before the gear saved me.
Ragnar
I did a lot of bouldering in my youth, then a great deal of "free solo". People can be downright fascist about what *you* should be allowed to do, so I never told anyone I was going, and went alone.
Can be dangerous if you don't think things out... which you have to do while hanging on your fingers. Biggest danger is finding you can't proceed, and having climb back down. You have eyes near your hands, not near your feet.
Tried technical (ropes, pitons) with some "friends"... holly shit those idiots were gonna get me killed!
Went back to free solo.... safer.
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