U.S. President Donald Trump tours a section of the southern border wall, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Otay Mesa, Calif.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Posted on 10/10/2019 5:48:47 PM PDT by Swordmaker
In a video posted online, an eight-year-old girl clambers up a replica of the border wall that U.S. President Donald Trump has called "virtually impenetrable."
Mom Karla Hancock posted a video of little Lucy Hancock scaling a wooden wall model in Kentucky, ahead of a border-wall climbing competition there next weekend.
As she climbs up the wall, Lucy wears a belay, a safety harness designed to catch a falling climber.
"We were able to help perform preliminary testing of the belay system this weekend," Karla wrote on Facebook on Sunday, Oct. 6.
"Lucy declared it an easy 5.7 with a tough dyno finish." A dyno is when a climber makes a dynamic move using momentum to get to the next hold.
The imitation wall is the brainchild of rock climbing veteran Rick Weber, 75, who was spurred on by claims from the president last month that "20 mountain climbers" had tested the wall 'and we gave them different prototypes of walls, and this was the one that was hardest to climb."
"No one in our climbing community knows any of these 20 mountaineers. I doubt if they exist," Weber wrote in climbing magazine "Rock and Ice."
"The configuration and design is dimensionally identical to the 18-foot version of the bollard wall (vertical steel square columns) now being erected along our southern border," the retired engineer wrote.
"With volunteer help from a few climber friends, I built and erected the section of wall over a four day period."
Weber says an adult climber, Erik Kloeker, was up and over the wall in about 40 seconds.
Weber is hosting the wall-climbing competition on his land in eastern Kentucky this weekend with a prize for the fastest climbers.
(This is a joke of a "wall replica" made with just four WOODEN bollards (which are easier to grip than steel) and all of just four feet wide, including the top PLYWOOD barrier (again, easier to grip than smooth, either too hot or too cold metal). This replica allows climbers to wrap their fingers and get a grip around the solid barrier for purchase and pull themselves up, hand-over-hand, and get to the top at the side which doesn’t exist on the continuous real wall, which on the replica deliberately defeats the designs impassable "barrier" intent, showing what a fraud this "easily climbed by an 8 year-old" claim is. The real border wall barrier section has no breaks, gaps, holes, or other obvious means of putting one’s fingers around it to gain a purchase or grip-hold to lever one’s self up. . . or is there a safety belay attached five feet above the wall, catching a climber to provide a bit of rest or leverage.— Swordmaker)
Video on site. . . Sorry no direct link to the video. . .
Try it while being shot at.
"Lucy declared it an easy 5.7 with a tough dyno finish." A dyno is when a climber makes a dynamic move using momentum to get to the next hold.
Lucy is obviously a well-trained, experienced climber. Not your average Guatemalan illegal unaccompanied minor.
Whoops....you forgot about the surveillance.
She also cheated. She went up the side of the solid panel at the top, which you couldn’t do a the fully constructed wall.
Climbing wood is much easier than climbing steel...
Hey....what’s that wire on top?
O, BS! Grabbing the side of the flat portion at the top is totally cheating,
Total garbage
And for what? The left says zero miles of this wall have been built.
90 degrees would still make the steel too hot to grip.
Ps.
You could simply use a ladder or toss a rope over too, nobody ever claimed it was impenetrable, its intended to be a deterrent
She climbed up the side of the structure. In a wall, there is no side to the structure.
Wood replica + climbing gear + adult supervision.
Ok, media....
Try it when it’s electrified....
Propagandist’s gotta spew propaganda, no matter how false.
Spray trucks should apply oil to the real wall every few days.
plus you’d be all sweaty which would make it hard to grip
Kids can do things a grown adult cannot.
Constantina wire about three rows deep on the other side...
“Lucy wears a belay, a safety harness designed to catch a falling climber.”
I’m sure there are plenty available for every border jumper. I hear hot air balloons are available too.
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