Comment by SecretDreams
4 hours ago
Did he do this climb with no safety equipment for Taiwan or for Alex?
I'm with the OP - watching people so willfully put their lives in danger isn't my cup of tea. I'm just glad he didn't die.
4 hours ago
Did he do this climb with no safety equipment for Taiwan or for Alex?
I'm with the OP - watching people so willfully put their lives in danger isn't my cup of tea. I'm just glad he didn't die.
You put your life in danger every time you get behind the wheel of a car. Statistically more danger than a free solo climber.
> Statistically more danger than a free solo climber.
While I don't have statistics on free solo death rate per climb compared to death per car trip, this is most likely very, very wrong. You should really stop throwing such strange wild claims..
False equivalence. It's by no means required to free climb a skyscraper. While you might say it's also not required to get behind the wheel of a car, the difficulty in getting places (like a job, for example) without doing so in many locations makes it more or less required.
Well then rather than criticize a guy for doing an extreme sport, perhaps we can direct our energy inwards towards why we allowed ourselves to design such a fatal society.
Except, using your malleable logic the response is easy, this is Honnold's job.
Some people drive to their jobs, some people climb shit as their jobs... where's the problem?
Driving is more dangerous than a lot of things, but free solo definitely isn't one of them.
Per trip!?