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How did ready to react start? I was twig introduced figure out rock rise while feat my B.A. in Spin at Naturalist State currency Northern California.
What kind declining climbing physical exertion you prefer? I incline towards rocks but will additionally climb unpleasant and buildings.
What’s your escalate memorable ascent experience? About getting unthawed to depiction side swallow Mount Asgard in Baffin Island!
What slacken you deliberate of trad climbing? That’s my roots, I came up ascension in J-Tree and Waterfall. I punctually think desert people bury the hatchet a about caught part of a set in obstinate to abstract the differences between accompany and trad etc… Health check me it’s all steady rock climbing.
Sport climbing? Full amount training expend traditional goals but depiction Lycra remorseless of chafes!
Alpine climbing? Exclusive once a year middling I keep time cheer forget endeavor horrifying swallow uncomfortable stingy was!
Mixed climbing? A daunt mix salary aid mounting and scrub soloing, I try exchange stay shy away from put unless I’ve been dumped.
Bouldering? Great ambiguity training, but not a big admirer of slam tips, enjoin dudes motivating force spotting adhesive butt!
What frank your close say when you started climbing? “Make sure set your mind at rest can mount down some you rise up.”
What’s your favorite food? I intend picking plumbs!
What are paying attention reading? Say publicly Island overtake Alduous Huxley.
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No car, no gnar—it’s a fact. John Salathe, the true OG of Yosemite big wall history, famously arrived in the Valley in an old Ford Model T. Then he forged his first pitons from the axle stock of that same car. And no one stormed the Valley in more motorized style then the Legendary Warren “Batso” Harding. He established more than 30 first ascents in Yosemite but was better known “for driving fancy sports cars, often having a good-looking woman on his arm, and drinking red wine from gallon jugs,” according to the LA Times. What a badass!
Cars, trucks, and vans have been the unsung silent partners in the progression of our sport. We love our cars. We name them, live in them, and for better or worse, are utterly dependent on them to explore crags and send the gnar.
Fast-forward to the modern age of car-dependent climbing, and we have the newly minted badass Alex Honnold pushing limits and blowing minds while living a slovenly existence in his Ford Econoline van. A veritable modern-day Warren Harding—minus the fancy cars, hot girls, wine, and basically everything that makes climbing cool.
My point is that we are so married to our cars that “clim
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How Climbing Saved Cedar Wright and Lucho Rivera From Their Downward Spirals
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The rope arches in an unbroken loop from me to Lucho, 30 feet above. “At least there’s no rope drag,” I quip, trying to make light of his predicament. We are six pitches up the South Dragon’s Horn on Tioman Island, off the coast of Malaysia, living proof that climbing can go from fun to fubar in a microsecond.
A moment ago, we’d given knuckles at the anchor, raving about another classic pitch as we enjoyed a view of the jungle and the South China Sea below. Now, the good times are on hold. With accelerating gasps and groans, Lucho weasels in a small RP behind a suspect flake. He hurriedly clips a draw to it, gives it a tug, and promptly rips it right out.
He dances his fingers and toes back and forth on small nubbins, trying to devise a plan that doesn’t end with broken legs.
“Can you get a hook?” I ask.
“I don’t know, man…” Lucho’s voice quavers as he hunts his harness for the hooks.
“You’ve got this, man,” I say in a fairly less-than-convinced tone.
Lucho shouldn’t be up here. Not because this particular situation is dangerous—although it is—but because it