Swiss Climber scales mountains with just pickaxes!
By Barry Ritholtz - August 23rd, 2011, 11:56AM
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
August 23rd, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Saw this as part of the traveling Banff Film Festival. These atheletes are cut from a different cloth and I am beyond impressed by their skill, strength, mental endurance, blah, blah, blah.
The thing that I always wonder about though are the cameramen filming in all these crazy spots. I think they deserve some special award for being able to capture all this.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Wow, that’s crazy stuff. We never hear about the guys that fall do we? :)
I’m trying to remember if I posted this in your 10 reads section. This is another one. It is older but she is climbing with her bare hands. It makes you wonder why people do such reckless stuff
UKC News – Catherine Destivelle Climbing Solo in Mali
A blast from the past this week. This pre-YouTube video is of Catherine Destivelle soloing in Mali. Filmed in 1987, High Magazine commented,
http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=49981
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:49 pm
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August 23rd, 2011 at 3:09 pm
American climbs Yosemite WITHOUT
August 23rd, 2011 at 3:10 pm
American climbs Yosemite WITHOUT pickaxes.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/05/yosemite-climbing/chin-photography
IMHO, totally insane.