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LiberatedUSA

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4. I don't know how anyone could free climb for fun.

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Wed May 26, 2021, 12:12 PM

May 2021

No matter how skilled. I would freeze up at the thought of falling and would be unable to move. I wouldn’t do it with the safety equipment either. Would not do that or skydive.

That one tightrope walker that went between the towers had to have been crazy. Just watching that movie made me cringe.

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Mountain climber with no rope plunges 1,000 feet in Alaska national park, officials say [View all] soothsayer May 2021 OP

"I told you so!" says his wife...... samnsara May 2021 #1

The climber survived a 1000 foot fall? GregariousGroundhog May 2021 #2

Maybe he bounced a lot? soothsayer May 2021 #3

. Effete Snob May 2021 #9

hahahaha SoonerPride May 2021 #21

The first 990 feet are easy Effete Snob May 2021 #8

That's a different fall sir pball May 2021 #10

that's like falling from 100 floor building Demovictory9 May 2021 #14

I don't know how anyone could free climb for fun. LiberatedUSA May 2021 #4

Neither do I. I definitely do not have... 3catwoman3 May 2021 #11

One of my kids climbs MissB May 2021 #12

Holy Cow!! Wow! Duppers May 2021 #16

I'm with you in not wanting to free climb, but there's a reason people do this. tinrobot May 2021 #13

So very true. Duppers May 2021 #18

And sometimes they end up not having a future to worry about. Crunchy Frog May 2021 #20

This is the craziest ever.... LuvLoogie May 2021 #15

Now, that triggers my acrophobia! tblue37 May 2021 #25

Skydiving is safer imo. Duppers May 2021 #17

Yeah, and if your chute fails... Wounded Bear May 2021 #23

😂 Duppers May 2021 #24

This doesn't seem, however, to have been free climbing muriel_volestrangler May 2021 #19

I don't get why he was without a safety rope. Ilsa May 2021 #5

Not a lot of detail there jobendorfer May 2021 #6

Who saw that coming? nolabear May 2021 #7

Was he named Homer? EX500rider May 2021 #22