General Climbing Discussion

Topic	Date	User
THE AUSTRALIAN RE, RETRO-BOLTING OPEN FORUM	18-Apr-2007 At 10:12:58 PM	spicelab
Message
On 18/04/2007 cruze wrote: The importance nowadays is on the lead What about the increasing trend in sport-climbing in which climbers begin with one, two and even three runners pre-clipped now, yet still insisting on calling it a lead ascent? In effect, modern, difficult sportclimbing seems to be evolving (devolving?) back towards top-roping. I don't have a problem with that. Although what I don't understand is if sportclimbers have no time for the issue of boldness, it seems a little bizarre how precious some remain about such 'lead' ascents. If the emphasis is merely on physical limits and putting a sequence together in one go, what is wrong with toproping?

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