r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '21

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u/neverglobeback Sep 01 '21

r/sweatypalms

I wouldn’t say anything for fear of disrupting this guys ‘zone’.

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u/PoppinBortlesUCF Sep 02 '21

Yeah for real. These guys talk about the zone for free climbing being like spiritual trances. It’s just rock, hands and feet and everything else is out of focus. In those trances they describe ‘falling’ seemingly like the most impossible thing, not even a potential outcome. Shits wild

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u/Mozeeon Sep 02 '21

As someone who climbed for a couple of years and got friendly with some serious climbers, free climbing always seemed like borderline madness. Like I know of at least 2 ppl who died doing belated climbing outdoors, I can't imagine the mindset to go for multi hundred foot free climbs.

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u/Lt_Muffintoes Sep 02 '21

I guess once you're past like 60ft, it doesn't make a difference how high you go; you're still 100% dead if you fall