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As new Rock Exotica Silent Partner 26-Nov-2021 At 4:12:06 PM Duang Daunk

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On 24-Nov-2021 Ithomas wrote:
>I repeat - you have got to be joking! By definition I will not be taking
>any money to the grave. Elon who? Your justification for spending money
>on grossly over-hyped objects or adventures simply because one has loads
>of money may well apply to someone with limited imagination, little empathy,
>few social constraints and even fewer friends!

Okay bro climber; I see from your response that you are careful with your monitory resources, have lots of imagination, empathy, social constraints and friends, but I am curious if you also subscribe to the anarchistic nature often exhibited by trad climbers of old.
For example, I doubt that despite having most of those attributes you list, the perpetrator of the Compressor Route on Cerro Torre was concerned with the cost of the bolts, or the compressor he used, to put up that contentious route.

I’m not suggesting that you are contentious, but instead am suggesting it probably isn’t unreasonable for those following a dream to spend the $ required to achieve it.