Hmmmm, What could go wrong?

[VenomJockey]

Hey, let's go climb a several thousand feet high cliff! Without safety equipment. you know, just our bare hands and a bag of rosin.....what could go wrong?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...obright-dies-after-rock-climbing-fall-mexico/

 

[Sentry18]

"“We raised our kids to be fearless,” she added."

If only they had raised them to be smarter, he might still be alive. Fear can be a gift.

 

[camo2460]

Yeah, lets Climb a Thousand Foot Cliff without Safety Equipment. This is a Classic Example of how Nature Culls the Weak and Useless. Maybe some more Brain Dead Morons can go Rock Climbing, the Gene Pool really needs a good Cleaning.

 

[Peanut]

No wonder the cartels think we're all idiots and they can walk all over us!

 

[camo2460]

No wonder the cartels think we're all idiots and they can walk all over us!

That's because a Vast Number of People in this Country, perhaps a Majority, are Idiots. That's why I say that most People couldn't find Water if they fell out of a Boat, and that's why I have no use for most People.

 

[phideaux]

Here...hold my beer.



Jim

 

[SheepDog]

This guy was a trained professional not someone with no knowledge. Free climbing is as big a sport as base jumping. Neither is extremely safe.

 

[Sentry18]

Trained or not trained, sport or not sport. It's natural selection at work.

 

[Haertig]

Physical training is fine. But mental training is needed too, so you can recognize, "Hey, this is pretty dangerous (climbing without ropes). Maybe I shouldn't do it." Of course, my advice doesn't hold much weight - I'm the guy who used to have handheld roman candle fights with my friends at ten paces.

 

[Rick]

Ernest Hemingway said:
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”


I have a higher tolerance for risk than most.. but "free" mountain climbing has a risk that is so disproportionately high even for the fittest of individuals..... An activity only to be done in emergencies.

 

[VThillman]

There is also the datum that EH was frequently FOS.

 

[Peanut]

I checked out photo's of the guy... I saw him on tv 4 or 5 years ago. I thought then... He's not long for this world.

Instead of "Free Solo Climber" his head stone will now read "Free Solo Faller"...

 

[Supervisor42]

Hey, let's go climb a several thousand feet high cliff! Without safety equipment. you know, just our bare hands and a bag of rosin.....what could go wrong?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...obright-dies-after-rock-climbing-fall-mexico/

Just a few points:
1. A helicopter is a terrible thing to waste. Ride one.
2. If I was a free-climber, I'd at least be wearing the backup chute that para-gliders wear.
3. He traveled all the way to Mexico to perform this death-defying stunt where a human life is worth about 85 pesos.

"Neither Jacobson nor Gobright tied stopper knots to the ends of their sides of rope, a safety measure to prevent falls, according to reports.

4. I'm not a professional, and I will ask Phideaux to hold my beer, but I do know how to tie a knot in the end of a damn rope.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Hmm well that is what happens when you are lax and don't follow safety guidelines like tying a knot in the end of your rope so you don't come off it and send your climbing partner to fall into the abyss.

Yes I have done rock climbing but knots are a basic thing and the thing you first learn and one of them was an instructor and should have known better.