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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by avar on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @03:48PM (#14500622) 

    > free solo climbing will kill you one day
    > [...] [Wikipedia] has a list of free solo
    > climbers.
The Wikipedia article you're linking to does list a bunch of people who've died doing it, but also famous free solo climbers in their 60s and even 80s.
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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by maxxxxx on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @04:03PM (#14500782)
There are plenty of chain smokers and drunk drivers in their 80s. It's still not a good idea.
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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by avar on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @04:59PM (#14501280)
It's not a good idea and it's dangerous, but we wouldn't say with confidence that smoking or drunk driving "will kill you one day", which is the part of the GPs comment I'm replying to.
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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by fiter on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @06:34PM (#14502058)
The population sizes are vastly different between chain smokers and free soloists.
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