The Wildebeest Asylum: One for the Climbers

Monday, December 12, 2005

Robert Ancell said...: Holy crap that's stupid. My hands are sweating like crazy just watching that!

I don't get climbers who go for stuff like that. They say they know their limits. But I find sure you find your limit, but you also become more aware of your failure rate. And .1% failures per climbs = chances in your lifetime (and you only get one).; 9:02 am
Jon said...: Yeah sure they 'know their limits', everyone makes mistakes sometimes and that's why guys like that invariably end up dead.

Still I guess they know the risks and just don't care. Either that or they're incredibly stupid...; 4:58 pm
Joel said...: It's funny, climbing like that never killed him.

He started doing rope jumping (tieing a climbing rope to himself and jumping from a cliff).

All was fun and games until he tried to break the record, a > 1000ft drop. Unfortunately, he was buzzing too much on the way up to it and made a judgement error about one the knots (he jumped in a different direction to the build up jumps). Not to mention it was AT NIGHT.

Still, surprised that he lived way into his 30s.; 10:56 am
Jon said...: I was under the impression that he died while climbing. Well anyway, I guess he died doing something stupid at least.; 5:17 pm