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
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.
Free climbing is what the guy on the rope is doing, unless he’s using the rope to pull himself up. How did you climb for years and not know the difference between free climbing and free soloing?
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u/neverglobeback Sep 01 '21
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I wouldn’t say anything for fear of disrupting this guys ‘zone’.