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To: BenLurkin

Zero sympathy or empathy for adrenalin junkies. This was not solo— it involved a climbing partner who is lucky (he sure knows it) to be alive, thanks to a bush breaking his fall.

Solo? Ok, you lose a grip, you fall and probably die your choice. But “rapped” to another? The math of gravity is absolute, and inexorable, and all the worse that this is done for a “self” and not “for” anyone else, except probably gear sponsorships. Gravity is a non-variable, and non-controllable, by the limits of human personal strength and perception.

Someone climbs higher than 30 feet above the ground without a rope and gear- they’re in the death zone and a fall means death.


10 posted on 11/28/2019 7:30:59 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

Yeah, it’s really too bad that some people have to do stuff like this just to feel something.


14 posted on 11/28/2019 7:54:33 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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