cracklover
Mar 27, 2008, 3:23 PM
Views: 1844
Registered: Nov 14, 2002
Posts: 10162
|
You know what? After thinking about it further, I take back my earlier statement saying climbing hasn't become less risky. I hadn't really thought about it enough yet when I made that statement.
Ran across this amazing video of Emilio Comici. Watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u69RdfqytM
And it's not just the super-athletes like Comici and Bonatti, either. I've seen movie footage of an early ascent of Cannon Cliff's Whitney Gillman Ridge by the Harvard Mountaineering Club. These were just a bunch of excited college kids. A belay was maybe one pin, in exfoliating granite, and then the leader would regularly fight 15, 20, 25 feet out - crappy shoes skittering around like a dog trying to run on linoleum, before finding a stance good enough to be able to stop and place a pin.
And Jay, 20 years ago was the height of the sport climbing revolution. I'm talking about further ago than that.
GO
(This post was edited by cracklover on Mar 27, 2008, 4:15 PM)
|
