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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by Lordarminius on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @03:23PM (#14500343)
It's a very small field, not many people make a discipline of it I wonder why ?

But serious question : of the four top people alive, any data on when they stopped climbing ? I would guess that would correlate with longevity.

I also recall reading somewhere that a disproportionate number of elite scientists and researchers in the 1930's - 60's were mountain climbers.

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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by Fricken on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @03:42PM (#14500547)
John Gill was doing long free solos on easy 5th class well into his 60s. Peter Croft is still working as a mountain guide out of Bishop, CA, I have no idea if he still goes out for jaunts sans rope in the high sierras, but he free soloed almost daily for decades.
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