Posted on 05/26/2019 2:51:27 PM PDT by Daffynition
What does “popularizing your favorite 5.10 crack” mean?
There are rating systems for the difficulty of a climb.
Usually, the crux move is the rating.
Also, lead climbing or seconding, or maybe top roping.
A guy simply must have some fun.
Very subjective, YMMV!!
Typically, climbing grades do fall into a rudimentary scale of difficulty. A 5.0 to 5.7 is considered easy, 5.8 to 5.10 is considered intermediate, 5.11 to 5.12 is hard, and 5.13 to 5.15 is reserved for a very elite few
https://www.sierra.com/blog/climbing/rock-climbing-grades-explained/
You should see the lines for the bathrooms!
In the list there appear to be only a small percentage of people from the United States.
Do less people from the United States attempt it or are the US climbers more fit and/or more cautious?
I have noticed in hiking in the North Cascades and other mountain areas in Western Washington that there seem to be a lot of foolish hikers from other countries. By that I mean Chinese and Russians mostly. They go pretty high up without water, proper foot attire, or a pack with extra clothing and some food. Some hikers seem to think if they are in a group nothing could possibly happen to them.
Oh, okay, thanks.
I was thinking my favorite
5.10 crack was my tall first wife.
Exactly. If you shell out enough money, a sherpa will practically carry you to the summit.
And for that terrible comment,... yes I did laugh and still grinning.
As penance you WILL read:
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew Henson
https://www.amazon.com/Negro-Explorer-North-Pole-Autobiography/dp/1931229015
A short read.
He makes it to the top of the globe, no reports of this problem.
Free PDF over at Gutenberg Press.
PS:
There now are black Eskimos! Long cold nights!
Google it.
Actually, I’m in the middle of Sinclair Lewis’s Kingsblood Royal. Written in 1947, a white liberal in Minnesota discovers in midlife that he has negro blood. Hilarity ensues.
It’s not the zenith, pun intended, of Lewis’s work, but if liked Elmer Gantry, or Babbitt, or any of his other books, this has his style.
My wife is from China and she took me to the Great Wall last September, definitely not for the faint at heart! They had to shut down the gondola that took you to the top due to high winds. We walked back down and it took almost three hours. There were people up there who couldn’t walk down, I wonder how they got back.
I really enjoyed the experience, it’s a must see if you ever get the opportunity.
Looks like Marines lined up because they heard there was a geedunk bar up there
Caption one of them asking : Do you think the line to the men’s john is shorter?
How much for the helicopter ride? Build a tram like at Squaw Valley, that would be worth a $50 ticket. Thousands? Not worth it.
“So what Sir Hillery did was not that great by today’s standards”.
If everybody’s special, then no one’s special.
Top pic: what $3M on ice looks like. 56 tourists, $50k trip avg. I rounded up, count is not fully accurate. Ego trip....
To to climb Everest is a personal choice that involves a great chance of death. I respect this choice of these fools. For the nations that own Everest to allow the extreme numbers to attempt to summit the peak and thus allow much death is wrong. They died due to waiting to summit the mountain due to a long slow line. I respect their wish to summit the mountain, they were fools, today they are naught but frozen bodies on the mountain among many like so.
Life at 25000 AINT FUN KIDS !
It's not the fried chicken @ the top, it's the turtle soup their after. Wink. Wink.
Any more and it might fall over....
Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide Tensing Norgay. They were the first it’s their fault.
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