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First Climb 27-Oct-2007 At 7:49:42 AM james

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On 26/10/2007 zumojugo wrote:
>The important thing to me is that I was very confident about
>building the belay as I have done this before and so the only person I
>was putting at risk was myself. I'm sure someone will now point out what
>is wrong with what I have put in this post and I look forward to reading
>those comments.

building belays is very important, but if you're out climbing with a mate & you decide to run it out & hurt yourself, its your mate that will be dealing with the consequences (ie rescuing you, calling the ambulance etc) - its not just you that is affected by your decisions when climbing. Its not really that often that things go wrong when climbing, but when they do go wrong the consequences are severe - the shit really hits the fan!

climbing harder gets to a point when falling is a regular & accepted part of the game - & of course the falling part comes at different times/grades for different people. If you want a long climbing career then you need to make sure you are 200% confident in your technical skills (ie gear placements, spacial awareness when you're flying through the air etc) & climbing ability BEFORE you get to the point of falling off.