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Climbers: Mickey Stainthorpe, Micky Page, Ned Feehally
Areas: England
Life On Hold Clip: The Young
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Tags: Featured, Life On Hold
Climbers: Mickey Stainthorpe, Micky Page, Ned Feehally
Areas: England
17 Responses to Life On Hold Clip: The Young
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maybe this is a stupid question, but instead of smashing your spnal disks to mush, why not just set up a top-rope?
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Because they’re not top-roping, they’re boldering,
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that kind of works. but then why use crash pads?
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Because the british are not indestructible like we are.
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It seems pretty obvious that top-roping does not offer the same experience as climbing a tall boulder problem in a ground-up style.
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perhaps free solo/high balls arent for me but id much prefer to wire beta on a tr before taking 20ft falls repeatedly on something i cant reasonably onsight. while there is a difference in ground up and other methods id rather not unexpectedly cut my climbing or life short for something rather trivial.
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Good inquiries. At what point does bouldering become “climbing.” The purpose of a crash-pad is to prevent injury. The purpose of a top-rope is to prevent injury. The purpose of a pad is not to define the act of “bouldering.” This dope is taking repeated 20+ foot falls. Not to sound like a p###y, but my dad had a slipped verterbrae, it wasn’t a pretty sight.
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If you don’t think it’s worth it, then don’t do it.
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i like how Bachar used to put it. if you can free it, then free it, otherwise put on a rope. tragically ironic, actually.
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The purpose of climbing is not to prove you have strong fingers. It’s to confront something inside yourself, which is hard to do on toprope.
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Like my dad always said, “Why are you wasting so much time and energy climbing a rock when you could put a ladder up or just walk around to the other side”
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did you honestly not see the shot of them top roping it at the beginning of this video?!?!
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seems to be cleaning the boulder, not toproping the moves on it.
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Yeah. They’re cleaning the line. Brush brush brush.
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This vid captures the feel and vibe of highball bouldering better than any I’ve ever seen. I love the comments of the climbers and spotters. Hells yeah! Getcha some my crazy-ass Brit Bros. What a sick line! =)
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As to the question of why not headpoint it or hang a TR, I would say Hillary and Mallory answered that years ago: “because it’s there” and “for the hell of it”.
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been climbing climbing for well over 20 years. I’ve always used the following rule on boulders: if i get stuck on a move on anything over about 15 feet, I will give myself three big falls, after that the tr goes up, or I find a crack to put in some pro. as I am now in my forties, bouldering has gotten more difficult. It seems I need an extra pad on which to fall, for each year over forty.
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