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Alex is just a bit too crazy to follow him. I don't like suicidal tendencies
I know nothing about climbing. beyond the straight flex of "I could die if I make a mistake", is there a point to doing this without safety equipment?
Money! He has a family to provide for and his unique skillset is "climbing below his grade but with no support", so that's the service he offers the world. (I get that there are more motivations underneath free soloing in general, but I doubt Taipei 101 with a million cameras is the climb he'd choose if it were not for the money.)
This is a very irresponsible thing to do when you have children.
Alex Honnold: No free soloist ever died doing anything cutting edge. Nobody died doing something really hard. A handful people died doing things that are easy. Most soloist died in different types of accidents...base jumping, rogue wave. Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9WWUNDb_S0o
In my view this guy is pretty irresponsible especially for promoting a “sport” that is unnecessarily dangerous in the most preventable way imaginable.
A bunch of kids and stupid adults watched that live stream and a non-zero amount of them now think they can try the same thing without anywhere near as much training and skill.
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I suspect a lot of this is habituation due to repeated practise. As long as one climbs well within one's abilities, the actual level of danger is comparatively low. But the fear is still there and needs to be trained away.
I don't think it required much training for Alex, I think he just has an under active amygdala or something
I think anyone who’s ever worked in construction would balk at the idea of hanging your life on pieces of building facade. Except for the the pieces stopping people falling through the outside windows and walls themselves, most of the outside decorative stuff is only designed to hold itself onto the building and not much more. He’s potentially hanging his 200lbs on something that’s intended to hold 0lbs.
No, you forgot that architects count the wind forces in, not just the weight of pieces hanging onto the facade. Give them dynamic spikes of factor 10, so it looks more like 1000lbs. Only once you can get your engineers to agree on only factor 2, you can build much much lighter structures.
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I don't think it required much training for Alex, I think he just has an under active amygdala or something
That’s the impression I got: he doesn’t feel fear like the rest of us.
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Money! He has a family to provide for and his unique skillset is "climbing below his grade but with no support", so that's the service he offers the world. (I get that there are more motivations underneath free soloing in general, but I doubt Taipei 101 with a million cameras is the climb he'd choose if it were not for the money.)
Is it known how much he made?
In his El Capitan climb (Free Solo), Alex was worried about cameras or presence of friends watching interfering with the climb. As oppose to that, this climb must have felt very different!
I'm wondering if this is because El Capitan is a much more technically difficult climb and thus posing much more risk than Taipei 101.
>Balin Miller, 23, was live-streamed on TikTok ascending and subsequently falling from the monolith on Wednesday.
>Details of what caused the incident are not clear, but Miller's brother Dylan told AFP he was lead rope soloing - a technique that enables climbing alone while still protected by a rope - on a 2,400ft (730m) route named Sea of Dreams.
>He had finished the climb and was hauling up equipment when he likely rappelled off the end of his rope, Dylan said.
>Tom Evans, a Yosemite-based photographer who witnessed Miller fall, told Climbing magazine he called 911 after Miller tried to free his bag, which was stuck on a rock.
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> Statistically more danger than a free solo climber. While I don't have statistics on free solo death rate per climb compared to death per car trip, this is most likely very, very wrong. You should really stop throwing such strange wild claims..
Of all the thousands of times tens of thousands people climb, only 30 die per year. Of that 30, 30% are free solo deaths. Free solo climbing is incredibly dangerous, but the people who do it (usually) prepare extensively and train their whole lives. https://gitnux.org/rock-climbing-death-statistics/ This is in contradiction to the experience of driving, where any number of people on the road with you are untrained, u…
>> While I don't have statistics on free solo death rate per climb compared to death per car trip, this is most likely very, very wrong. You should really stop throwing such strange wild claims..
> Of all the thousands of times tens of thousands people climb, only 30 die per year. Of that 30, 30% are free solo deaths.
So? I would think few people die from free soloing at height not because it’s relatively safe, but because very few people do it.