Ask a FreeBase Climber Anything

[Skevious Manholelicker]

When you're hiking up the mountain and want to auto-erotically asphyxiate, how do you get the rope up there?

The joy of big-mountain climbs is that you are in a perpetual state of auto-erotic asphyxiation.

Woah, I only just realised that as I typed it. I literally just supplanted "because it's there" as the most honest and forthright answer to mountaineering's greatest philosophical debate.

 

[Fawlty]

Well that about wraps it up for alpinism!

 

[minute bull]

The higher you go the closer you can come to God.

 

[mb23100]

When you climb tothe top of some of those towers in utah, how do you get back down? Isnt down climbing much more difficult?

 

[Phlog]

Are you died yet?

 

[Streeter]

Only way I free climb a thing over 30 ft is if I'm being chased by my ex mother in law........ that woman was pure evil.

 

[therealdope]

@therealdope

 

[luv24nic8]

Wouldn't you agree that Alex Honnold is a little bitch? Climbing aside, the dudes a femenist, vegan, and atheistic.

 

[Fawlty]

The higher you go the closer you can come to God.

Not those kinds of ropes bud

 

[Carl Sonnen]

Do you have a death wish? Can I have your record player?

 

[Noodles03]

Is this how you train for rock climbing?

 

[Plutoburn]

I recently watched Free Solo, as a fellow climber, what's your thought on that movie if you've seen it.

 

[IloveTHIS]

Wouldn't you agree that Alex Honnold is a little bitch? Climbing aside, the dudes a femenist, vegan, and atheistic.

Alex Honnold could literally beat the shit out of you for a warmup to a climb

I'll agree the feminist part is lame. But who cares if hes vegan and atheist? It's obviously not having a negative impact on his life

 

[IloveTHIS]

Do you have a death wish? Can I have your record player?

I'm going to answer for TS if that's ok.

He doesnt have a death wish. He has a life wish. He does not want to die having never truly lived. And you never feel more alive than when you are looking death in the stupid fucking face and saying "hey pussy are you still there? ."

 

[Fawlty]

He doesnt have a death wish. He has a life wish."

You know who said exactly that?

This guy:



He died a few years later doing rope jumps near Leaning Tower in Yosemite.



The guy from Free Solo even spoofed that climb:




He'll die, too. Good times.

 

[luv24nic8]

Alex Honnold could literally beat the shit out of you for a warmup to a climb

I'll agree the feminist part is lame. But who cares if hes vegan and atheist? It's obviously not having a negative impact on his life

I wasn't talking to you, noob-

Don't you have a camping trip to go on or something?

 

[IloveTHIS]

I wasn't talking to you, noob-

Don't you have a camping trip to go on or something?

Rude

 

[dembones22]

Well this is basically my worst nightmare... fuk that shit.

 

[IloveTHIS]

You know who said exactly that?

This guy:



He died a few years later doing rope jumps near Leaning Tower in Yosemite.



The guy from Free Solo even spoofed that climb:




He'll die, too. Good times.

Just because he died doesn't mean hes was an idiot or his idea of life was "wrong"

you're going to die. I'm going to die. 30 years of life or 120. You cant take them with you when you're gone. if you can spend your time doing what you love and feeling absolutely alive, thats not a "wrong" way to live even if you eventually meet your fate.

 

[Fawlty]

Just because he died doesn't mean hes was an idiot or his idea of life was "wrong"

you're going to die. I'm going to die. 30 years of life or 120. You cant take them with you when you're gone. if you can spend your time doing what you love and feeling absolutely alive, thats not a "wrong" way to live even if you eventually meet your fate.

I didn't say it was wrong or a bad way to go, it's just the way it is. I agree there's room in the world for people to risk their lives, and they do amazing things. Rationalizing it seems like the wrong approach (it's sort of inherently irrational), but it's complicated.