Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:57 pm
She's seen using an ascender on the video, the blue Petzl model. Plus this is all the gear you really need to climb mountains, isn't it?
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MoapaPk wrote:climberslacker wrote:but still, the boots were compleatly unnesesary, i would have prolly just hopped over and got the cat, it was what, 7 feet? at the most? But still cool that shes 60, and still doing that crap.
-CS
It looks at least 7', but the main thing is that the top of the wall was well beyond her reach when she was on the ledge. More important, the narrow ledge was quite high up on the abutment. Unless one is extremely agile, just hopping down to the ledge would be extremely dangerous. And how would she get back up, once down, since she couldn't reach the top of the abutment?
I can't tell from the video, but the description makes it sound like she had tied friction knots, but hadn't used enough coils, so the knots were slipping. Maybe she did have an ascender.
MoapaPk wrote:Ammon Hatch wrote:Why is she wearing mountaineering boots? Was that what she was running in? Seems like she wanted to put on a show.
She says that she went home and got her climbing equipment first.
Alpinist wrote:The ledge is not that narrow. She's standing sideways on it when she picked up the cat. And then she handed it up to the people above her while standing on it. (Look at minute 1:26.) It couldn't have been more than 7' high. Anyone that is comfortable with heights could have lowered themselves down to the ledge and then hopped back up afterwards.
Alpinist wrote:Getting back up would have been just as easy. As long as you have a good handhold and it's not eroding dirt on the edge, then that would be simple enough.
Day Hiker wrote:Alpinist wrote:Getting back up would have been just as easy. As long as you have a good handhold and it's not eroding dirt on the edge, then that would be simple enough.
I think it's a reasonable statement that very very few 60+ year-old women have the finger and arm strength to do a legitimate pull-up on a chinning bar at the gym, let alone one hanging from fingers on a broken concrete ledge.
isostatic wrote:The simplest solution would seem to be to tie a rope to a basket, put some fish of other cat treat in the basket, lower it to the cat, wait for the cat to jump in, and then use the rope to raise the basket with the cat.
But, of course, this is a climber's site!
Alpinist wrote:OR - we could have tied a rope around your foot and lowered you down head first. You're not very heavy...
Day Hiker wrote:Alpinist wrote:Getting back up would have been just as easy. As long as you have a good handhold and it's not eroding dirt on the edge, then that would be simple enough.
I think it's a reasonable statement that very very few 60+ year-old women have the finger and arm strength to do a legitimate pull-up on a chinning bar at the gym, let alone one hanging from fingers on a broken concrete ledge.
Ammon Hatch wrote:Why is she wearing mountaineering boots? Was that what she was running in? Seems like she wanted to put on a show.