Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli...
by dguaraglia on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @05:19PM
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While I agree, I think it's a self-limiting problem: those of us who are completely outside of the sport would look at this and think "wow, what an amazing feat" but never fathom doing it. Those on the inside will know how hard and risky this is.
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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli...
by protomyth on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @09:29PM
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That's pretty much true of every profession. People on the outside are horrible at understanding the risk, amount of time needed, and how amazing something is. This is one of the examples where the risk and amazement are so extreme that and observer gets in the ballpark on the estimate.