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General Climbing Discussion

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The most dangerous time of your life!!? 18-Mar-2012 At 6:24:20 AM cruze
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On 17/03/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>Pot? Kettle?
Completely hypocritical, I know. I have justified doing risky things all my life by saying other things are more risky, or more colloquially 'she'll be right'. I'd be surprised if anyone out there doesn't.
>
>One thing which my limited (non-NZ) mountaineering experience has taught
>me, is that often (just like rock climbing) the objective risk goes down
>as the grades go up.
>
>If the low grade routes have avalanche/rockfall/crevasse risk, maybe spending
>too much time working up through the grades isn't actually safer?
Possibly, but I am hoping that reducing subjective risk by gaining broad experience will help when it counts. On the flip side if all I wanted to do in life was climb a single specific peak and retire then there is an argument that I should just go and try that and never climb again, thereby reducing my lifetime objective danger risk significantly! As you know it is all a very imperfect balancing act.

Still working it all out which is why this thread is interesting. I know what I do is dangerous. I feel I can manage most of those dangers and the ones I can't I feel are worth the risk to live a fulfilling life. Sure the photos are pretty but it is more than that to me.

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