Posted on 01/16/2024 2:20:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
"Losing weight in climbing is always seen as a good thing." Kai Lightner is one of them.
He was a youth climbing world champion but at 14 he was told his liver was close to failure.
He also fractured his spine in two places and realized the restrictions he put on his eating had spun out of control.
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My nephew is a would-class Cliff/rock climber who lives in Colorado and he’s 6’ with much more muscle mass than others in his passion. Likes his PBR, too, but burns more calories in a day than most do in a week.
He sold an interface to MicroSoft for millions a few years ago, basically gave up that life even though he’s been offered tens of millions, and now lives in his Toyota conversion van and travels the country climbing the half a year he isn’t traveling abroad for film and photo climbing shoots. We all won’t be surprised if we get notice that he fell off a cliff in Argentina or somewhere else. It’s a weird feeling having a loved one live such a life and you just have to accept the risk he may be gone any minute doing what he wants to do.
Have you ever seen the documentary of the guy who free climbs El Capitan?
I find it hard to watch.
“With climbing, it’s just the obsession with thinness in our sport is so pervasive that it doesn’t seem out of place.”
So...whose problem is that? And they are going to leave their personal health in the hands of a commission? Yikes!
If he keeps it up, he’s not long for this world.
I think some people have zero fear at all.
True, but a lot of those zero-fear folks aren’t around anymore.
Agreed, I’m definitely not saying it’s a good thing.
Trump is heavy and climbs mountains Daley
“Have you ever seen the documentary of the guy who free climbs El Capitan?
I find it hard to watch”.
When I see Alexander Honnold solo climbing the half dome or Jeb Corliss “Grinding the Crack” in a wingsuit, I feel I must have ESD because I know exactly how these people are going to die.
Same. I don’t watch any actual live craziness. I’ve seen some things online you can’t unsee…
There are bold pilots
There are old pilots
But there are few old bold pilots
That’s what I believe too.
Obviously.
If he has that kind of money, he needs to climb with an emergency bolt gun, fires a charge that shoots a bolt (with cable) into the rock. Or pack an emergency chute.
Is rock climbing an Olympic sport now?
I have. He’s friends with my nephew, who also has a climbing documentary about him but without the MicroSoft backstory.
Cue the: “He died doing what he loved.”
Jeb Corlis took a bad fall in his wingsuit at some point. He lived, but barely. I think he’s a lot less involved in the more dangerous stunts.
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