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UK Daily Mail ^ | June 4, 2018 | Ryan Perry

[Pelham]

I’m eagerly awaiting the thread on the two climbers who just fell from Halfdome. I’ve become a connoisseur of risk scolding.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Beale Street is the Promise Land. They promise you can walk there, but they don’t promise you’ll come back.

[wardaddy]

I saw that

I wonder if that 85 year old guy who was a first ascent of El Cap ever found someone to do Grizzly Peak with him there

Whitmore...something like that

My wife says prayers for Alex Honold when she remembers

We follow his free solos

He and another guy just set El Cap free assist record

Like 2:15

Crazy

It took Whitmore and that team months of up and down gear hauling to plot the first route....the Nose route I think

I think Royal Robbins was the real first guy to canvas Yosemite

And Chouinard

The Stoners and beer drinkers in the 70s were def the mad dogs

Man those documentaries with guy climbing with a Marlboro red in his mouth

I’ve seen Alpine guys smoking too way up over 22,000

I guess they are so fit they can handle it

I lit up at a ski slope outside La Paz in the 80s and got so dizzy...about 5200 meters

Hell A Basin made me dizzy

[MtnClimber]

I have been climbing many years. I think they were cutting down on protection anchors to make speed. This assumes you will not fall. But with the small cracks on this route it is hard to get in good protection. If the lead climber fell and zipped out the protection below him it would pull off his partner which is what I think happened. If you think you won’t fall and think placing only 2 pieces of protection in a 150 foot pitch to gain speed, you are on your own.