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miavzero


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Okay,

Lets think of some fun ways to compare climbing/issues related to climbing to the rest of the world. Feel free to discuss things like climbing as representation of spiritual growth, or fun things like speculating the previous lives certain groups of climbers.

Is the modern sport climber a reincarnated sooner, jumping the gun in front of the traditional homesteader?


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climbers are like lobsters, if you stick them in a pot of boiling water, they die


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climbers are like gas prices: they just keep going up
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Climbing Everest is like invading Iraq.


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You do it just so you can say you did it without any plan for getting in or out?


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boulderers are defeat the laws of physics , they go up but cant get down (me on left intersection rock)


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