Today I'm happy about......

[Hoboh]

Hells Bells guess it wouldn't do to turnover in your sleep!

[Prufrock]

Well. Feck that!

[KeyserSoze]

Q&A about it.

should prob include a link

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[Harry Genshaw]

I think that's one of the most terrifying photos I've ever seen

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Q&A about it.

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[KeyserSoze]

Q&A about it.

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My most humble apologies!

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[Bruce Rioja]

I think that's one of the most terrifying photos I've ever seen

Indeed. Who took it? And how?

[Hoboh]

I think that's one of the most terrifying photos I've ever seen

Indeed. Who took it? And how?

Must have been a fast shutter speed if he was falling

[Harry Genshaw]

I think that's one of the most terrifying photos I've ever seen

Indeed. Who took it? And how?

Must have been a fast shutter speed if he was falling

[jaffka]

Lot of trust in those metal pegs hammered into the rock.

[thebish]

I think that's one of the most terrifying photos I've ever seen

Indeed. Who took it? And how?

it was taken by "adventure photographer" Gordon Wiltsie, 57 - he's an accomplished climber himself - but makes his living with extreme sport photos and has recently been admitted to the National Geographic explorers hall of fame...

there's a gallery of his extreme rock-climbing/camping photos here: number two of the 17 - that's what freestyle handholds are like - what they do is fecking amazing!!

(the guys we first started talking about take days off on the climb to allow enough skin to grow back on their fingers...)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... ml?image=1

[TANGODANCER]

Brave? adventurous? hardy? doing something I wouldn't ever have the balls to try, they're still as mad as hatters.

[Harry Genshaw]

^ Most of them make my legs go funny

He's bound to have at least one in his collection of some poor bugger just about to fall off

[Montreal Wanderer]

As a segue to anothere thread...

Caldwell's last brush with news worthy of attention from National Public Radio and The New York Times was in 2000, when he and his climbing team were taken hostage by Islamic rebels for six days in southwestern Kyrgyzstan. Caldwell pushed an armed kidnapper off a cliff to escape. He was haunted by thoughts that he had killed a man until 2003, when the kidnapper showed up alive.

[Harry Genshaw]

As a segue to anothere thread...

Caldwell's last brush with news worthy of attention from National Public Radio and The New York Times was in 2000, when he and his climbing team were taken hostage by Islamic rebels for six days in southwestern Kyrgyzstan. Caldwell pushed an armed kidnapper off a cliff to escape. He was haunted by thoughts that he had killed a man until 2003, when the kidnapper showed up alive.

Bizarre. Probably the last place you'd expect to see an Islamic rebel would be on the side of a ruddy mountain! ! (Unless of course he was taking it to Muhammed )

[Dujon]

So they climb a cliff carrying with them everything including food, water, stove and the kitchen sink.
WHY?
If they do make it to the top they then have to come down again, which I surmise would be even more difficult.
I live in an area where there are many steep cliffs and waterfalls which climbers find a challenge. There are even 'BASE' jumpers pitting themselves against gravity and the unknown quality of their safety gear. All too often these 'adventures' finish with other people risking their own lives to rescue (or retrieve the bodies of) those who failed.
Hrmph!

[Montreal Wanderer]

So they climb a cliff carrying with them everything including food, water, stove and the kitchen sink.
WHY?
If they do make it to the top they then have to come down again, which I surmise would be even more difficult.
I live in an area where there are many steep cliffs and waterfalls which climbers find a challenge. There are even 'BASE' jumpers pitting themselves against gravity and the unknown quality of their safety gear. All too often these 'adventures' finish with other people risking their own lives to rescue (or retrieve the bodies of) those who failed.
Hrmph!

I assume they walk down the other side where there is a nice set of steps. I was there in 2006 but decided not to walk up a vertical kilometre, which would be closer to two all uphill.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

If there is a nice set of steps on the other side, then why the fcuk are pissing about hanging off the side of a cliff Need locking up in a mental institution the lot of them

[thebish]

aye - good point.. if there is a another football team that wins most weeks - then why the fcuk are we pissing about with BWFC we need locking up in a mental institution, the lot of us!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

This is Jorgeson on pitch 15 - the most difficult pitch, holding the last but one hold before his final transition which included a leap across to clutch a hold as equally precarious as the one he's on.



and here he is on (pitch 12?)