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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by YokoZar on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:37AM (#14505370)
On what basis do you think his odds of death on a given climb are less than 0.01%?
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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by justin66 on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @10:11AM (#14506559)
The guy has done the route many, many times with a rope. You could sort of work out a probability based on how many times he has had to save himself with the rope. (I'm not sure he ever has)

downvoter: justify yourself. Do you object to making the calculation this way, or what?

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