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March 03, 2005
Soloing
All right, I figure this blog is named after one of my favorite sports, so i might as well talk about it.
This is a picture of a guy soloing, i.e. climbing without ropes. One might think that rock climbing with ropes is dangerous, sticking onto the rock through very tiny impurities and trusting your life to some woven threads and metal loops might sound a little crazy. Soloing however, brings the sport to a whole new level. Of corse many people have died from this type of climbing, so I don't think i'll be trying it any time soon. Yet there is one type of soloing that's less dangerous called deep water soloing where you are climbing over a pool (a deep pool) of water. The theory being that if you fall, the landing is safer than the base of a rock cliff. We saw a very good video of deep water soloing at the Banff film festival where the climber described the landing as "soft", I guess i'm going to take his word for it. The route they were climbing was crazy insane, as in a 5.14a with a huge dyno at the end, oh, and did i mention they were SOLOING it?? I can only hope of being that good. One of these days....
Posted by agutwin at March 3, 2005 05:23 PM
Comments
Okay, what's the point in soloing when you can just as easily use ropes? For the coolness factor? I find that unnecessarily risky. There shall be no soloing of you when you are in my presence...
Posted by: Rebecca at March 4, 2005 05:51 AM