Not For The Acrophobic

[guru]

oh...my...god


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k4Xk1mEwmI

[lonewolf]

Re: Not For The Acrophobic

Ditto.. :shock:

[Daisy]

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How do they find people who are willing to do that?

[kuha]

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:!:

[Marlow]

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So when you're climbing at the very tippy-top, you're not attached to anything??!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

[Daisy]

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And now I think about it, it's got to be even worse going down!!!

[gh]

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If i didn't have Acro before, i certainly do now!

Hokey-smokes! I had to stop halfway just to catch my breath.

[kuha]

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Terrifying, for sure.

I wonder: How much they would have to pay ME to do that--even when I was 25 & fit? $10,000 wouldn't do it; $25,000 wouldn't do it... At the $100,000 level I'd at least start to think "could I actually do this?"--but I'm pretty sure the answer would still be NONONONONONONONO!

[Marlow]

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I wonder: How much they would have to pay ME to do that--even when I was 25 & fit? $10,000 wouldn't do it; $25,000 wouldn't do it... At the $100,000 level I'd at least start to think "could I actually do this?"--but I'm pretty sure the answer would still be NONONONONONONONO!

Good question. One step further? How much would you bet? Do it and you keep all the money. Chicken out and you lose it.
$50K is a lot to lose, but maybe the right incentive to make oneself do it.
The problem is the lack of life-lines. Just getting dizzy up there would be fatal.

[Conor Dary]

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There are plenty of people in Boulder who would do it, or at least there were.



Just go to Eldorado Canyon.

But seriously, I think the video is scarier than actually doing it. In my relatively short climbing career, I am kind of still surprised at some of the stuff I got up. Standing at the base of some vertical wall I sometime would pray for rain just so I could quit. But once you get started and are concentrating on what you are doing, i.e. looking at the rock etc, before you know it you are at the top.

The first time I did the Third Flatiron in Boulder, even though it is an easy climb it is so exposed that I had to quit about a third up. Looking around and taking in the view was not wise. But I did it again and this time only looked at the rock and had no problems.

[kuha]

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The truth is, there are a few folks who would do this climb for the fun of it. Many (desperate impoverished folks?) that would do it for something in the range of $1,000; and plenty more that would do it (or try it) for $100,000. But not me...

[Conor Dary]

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The truth is, there are a few folks who would do this climb for the fun of it. Many (desperate impoverished folks?) that would do it for something in the range of $1,000; and plenty more that would do it (or try it) for $100,000. But not me...

I wonder how many people could actually do it just for the money? I would bet it is not many. It is a loooong way up.

[Conor Dary]

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But not me...

kuha the climbing ape!

[kuha]

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But not me...

kuha the climbing ape!

Bingo! That was me in my younger, fit & handsome days...

[guru]

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Here's a discussion thread on the video, including a guy who did it for awhile.

http://www.artifacting.com/blog/2010/09 ... ion-tower/