Stuck on Crib Goch
This guy gets nervous. I don't think that i would like to be up there.
(, Tue 19 Aug 2025, 14:44, Reply)
it's funny fear
if I put a wide plank on a carpet floor and asked you to walk along it, most would have no issues. Put it 1000ft in the air and suddenly many are teetering on jelly legs. The safest way to walk down or across a steep slope is keep your body vertical, so your weight is straight down for maximum grip. But fear makes people want to lean in to the slope so they don't topple downwards, but leaning increases the chance of them slipping, and you're not balanced.
So taking people mountaineering (and it's more walks like above, I'm not doing the north face of the Eiger), part of it is more teaching them to deal with and ignore these paralysing fears, which you do by exposing them gradually and building confidence, hopefully so you don't get scenes like this poor bugger
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 21 Aug 2025, 0:10,
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I've run across there and walked it a few times
I also worked at the lake below in the background fitting a hydroelectric pipeline. This was 38 years ago. The run about 30 years ago. Someone died falling there last week so the danger can be real but seeing the 'fish eye' camera view makes me wince at the drops on each side
(, Thu 21 Aug 2025, 12:59, Reply)
Scary, but not Fred Dibnah scary.
Edit: why is he carrying a washbasin soil pipe? Selfie camera?
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 22 Aug 2025, 15:22,
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