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What is a Climber? – Erik Eisele

January 4th, 2013


 

Photo by Erik Eisele

Are you a Climber?

Interesting and thought provoking read from Erik Eisele

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There is a thread on NEIce.com right now asking how many climbers people think there are. In that question there is an inherent assumption about what it means to be a climber, and in the first few responses the discussion takes a hard left turn into who is really a climber. The back and forth got me thinking.

Am I a climber? I moved to North Conway a decade ago with no job, no clue how I was going to survive. I had led a handful of 5.9 rock climbs, but none of the classics on Cathedral. Grade 4 ice was within grasp, but I didn’t have a clue how to survive steep ice or mixed climb. I didn’t know how to aid climb, haul, bivy, belay off the anchor, belay a leader with a Grigri, sport climb, handjam, place a pin or do half the things I now take for granted.

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Read the rest here…..

Source: http://shadesofgranite.blogspot.com

Submitted by:  Doug Millen /  NEice.com


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