Re: Is it wrong to pick on those weaker than yourself?
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 5:33 am
Thus, falling is indeed an action not in your control. Not a result of ones action.
The absurdity of this point of view is stunning.
If you get up on a serious climb, be it ice or rock or choss, and things are not right but YOU CHOOSE TO GO ON then whatever happens after that is directly the result of your action.
I get CClaudes point about risk assessment. I just get frustrated when I see climbers use psychobabble stuff to rationalise decisions they know are risky as if they are not. Risk is fine, but come clean and acknowledge what we/you are doing.
I've crossed the line enough times myself, and spent many months in casts thinking about it. To succeed at climbing requires risk. The balance is between one's skills and one's boldness.
Chief, how many hero pics have you posted here of Gullich, Hubers, etc., doing very bold and risky ascents, landmark ascents which define climbing in their day? Yet would you say that were such a climber to fall at the wrong time it was not a result of their actions?
Now I don't spend a second thought on the decisions and actions or the potential consequences of climbers in the league of Hubers and beyond (Honnold, Lonnie K, etc.,) but I would never suggest to climbers in general that actions do not have consequences.