The world championships of climbing shit is ongoing (you can watch live on youtube) and I can confidently say Symmonds has no chance at competing with those dudes.
The world championships of climbing shit is ongoing (you can watch live on youtube) and I can confidently say Symmonds has no chance at competing with those dudes.
Crooked Hillary wrote:
I would say it's time to find a career. What is it with former athletes who don't move to meaningful work?
Although I guess if I was a former athlete who had tons of money, I might not work either. Not sure if Nick made tons of money.
Meaningful work? There's no such thing aside from maybe farming and some manufacturing work.
Bouldering relates to mountaineering like the 100m relates to a 100-mile trail ultra.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Starts at 6am edt/ 3am pdt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZoSkwvNMngworld champs of climbing shit
Nick has the inflated confidence of John Kennedy Jr., except he will be known for his mistakes on the mountain rather than in the air.
I'd like to see your reaction when Nick shatters Kilian Jornets mountain climb records. It will be priceless.
Here's a song for you:
H8ters gonna h8 wrote:
I'd like to see your reaction when Nick shatters Kilian Jornets mountain climb records. It will be priceless.
Here's a song for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM
in your dreams dude, apparently you know nothing about climbing
Triball Trey McSchlong wrote:
Bad Wigins wrote:Starts at 6am edt/ 3am pdt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZoSkwvNMngworld champs of climbing shit
Bouldering relates to mountaineering like the 100m relates to a 100-mile trail ultra.
Precisely. Very confusing why Bad Wigins brought bouldering into the conversation. Very different worlds.
Nick's aspirations are pretty weak; he should just say and believe he'll do the seven summits (if that's the crap he wants to get into). If he has the ability to train for Olympic level running, he can train easily for Aconcagua, Denali and Everest. Fitness and ability aren't his problems, just timing and weather on those peaks. He seems unnecessarily intimidated by a single day climb on Rainier. A large amount of people summiting Rainier do the R/T in around 24 hours and are 10-20 years older than him and in far worse shape. If he thinks he's going to get super GNAR on the DC or Emmons routes and deal with "aluminum ladders" he's talking to the wrong people.
This is the typical fodder of someone who is suddenly enthralled by buying a bunch of gear and being able to "get photos" for social media exposure. I've climbed the big peaks in the Cascades, its fun, but in the scope of climbing true mountains or *real* alpinism, the majority of summits completed across the Cascedes are mellow, beginner level stuff. The stuff he wants to do and be seen doing is amatuer and its odd as he seems to see the Seven Summits as some kind of lateral professional/ability-level move from his track exploits.
Also, John Gugala: Nick wants to climb Mt. Olympus (7,979') in Washington on the Olympic Peninsula, not the one in Greece (9600') as you referenced.
This is just another click-baitey article that seems perfectly suited for Outside's armchair, office-workers-with-a-mountaineer's-dream subscribers. Keep it sloppy amigo.
There were 2 aluminum ladders on the DC route this summer when I climbed it.
sad but true wrote:
H8ters gonna h8 wrote:I'd like to see your reaction when Nick shatters Kilian Jornets mountain climb records. It will be priceless.
Here's a song for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JMin your dreams dude, apparently you know nothing about climbing
I know enough - I have climbed Kiimanjaro.
And I know Nick can do it. If you knew anything about how he is currently training and some of the speed ascents he has been doing, you wouldn't be making such anti-American statements. Nick will make America great again.
Blind people, amputees, children, and women have climbed Everst to the summit. It can't be that difficult.
Triball Trey McSchlong wrote:
Bouldering relates to mountaineering like the 100m relates to a 100-mile trail ultra.
Bad Wigins wrote:Starts at 6am edt/ 3am pdt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZoSkwvNMngworld champs of climbing shit
What if there is a boulder on the mountain? You might have to climb over a boulder.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Triball Trey McSchlong wrote:Bouldering relates to mountaineering like the 100m relates to a 100-mile trail ultra.
What if there is a boulder on the mountain? You might have to climb over a boulder.
What if there is a rich hot chick? Or a dictatorial sports governing body? Or a physically demanding television show? Or an international athletics competition? Oh, wait, Nick has experience with all of those. Nick FTW.
Good for him, there's nothing really like climbing mountains, no matter the difficulty.
Although to me, the whole seven summits thing seems like such an attention/ego stunt. I guess I can't talk since I haven't seriously considered climbing a true big mountain like Denali, Acongua, etc, but I don't see how herding along with hundreds of other people on the same mountain (not talking about true mountaineers putting up hard new routes, etc) could ever touch the experiences I have being the only person or party on a beautiful alpine ridge of an obscure backcountry peak in one of the good western US ranges like the Sierra, Winds, etc.