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Todd Skinner - Dies on Leaning Tower Yosemite 2-Nov-2006 At 9:06:23 PM pisces

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And better yet, you'd have four kidneys instead of two!!
Renoquadricity eh? You could belay off Henle's loop (physiology joke!)
I was discussing this interesting harness question with a porsche-racing mate. He says that in the motor racing game body harness webbing is stamped with a five year expiry date after which it must be retired. This followed testing on fatigue and wear due to multiple low level strain. This of course is without the added effect of ultraviolet exposure, and with less sharp loading points. Interesting point of reference.

As for Todd, I am affected by his death. I knew him a little, from my first year of climbing, which I learnt in Yosemite in 1985. I belayed him on whatever new hardest route he was working on at the time. I thought him a little arrogant, but we all were at that age and I was probably just envious of his amazing talent. I still remember the seam he was climbing- it looked like it was good only for fingernails. I am sometimes accused of having a death wish because of my climbing. Nonsense- it is a life wish we climbers have- the more intense the better. Todd did it well.