Goin' out in style...

[griz]

Here is the scenario:

You open a letter and it tells you that you have a year to live...you'll be healthy the whole time but then your brain just will explode(or whatever) in a year. Bummer... The next letter you open has a check for $100,000 to be used for climbing/training expenses til you kick the bucket...

 

So what would your Last Big Climb be?

[snoboy]

sick mind man, sick mind...

[ashw_justin]

Well, obviously something that would no doubt kill me... like snowboarding K2 or something what's the diff?

[Dru]

So what would your Last Big Climb be?

 

yo mama

[griz]

May your brain explode 5ft below your dream summit...

[Dru]

May your brain explode 5ft below your dream summit...

 

i got news for you it wouldn't be even close to a first ascent...more like a trade route

[willstrickland]

A new route on Great Trango, solo, on acid.

[Fairweather]

The Tooth. South Face, of course.

[olyclimber]

I would use the money to save the children.

[EWolfe]

Speaking of going out in style:

 

 

[griz]

Who would have thunk this thread would have degenerated into a 'Yo Mama' thread in less than 5 posts...

 

C'mon,Dru, don't you want to ever climb higher than your post count? What is it?

 

Or you still into 60 year old women?

[Dru]

i would blow it all in vegas in a day cause dirtbag is the soul of climbing and money would only wreck it

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

This raises the question which was raised in 'Ghost Dog', which was from some anecdote about Lao Tzu or some such person. To wit: do you live as if you might die tomorrow, or as if you might never die?

 

[lummox]

i would throw a kickin party for all my friends (both of them). bwahahah.

[Greg_W]

i would throw a kickin party for all my friends (both of them). bwahahah.

 

And buy some new lotion for your girlfriend, Rosie Palm, no doubt.

[Fejas]

A new route on Great Trango, solo, on acid.

 

Now your talkin!

 

Before i even got through the origanal post, all I thought was free solo every thing I could imagine and if it killed me, then oh well... if it didn't I'd like to sky dive with out a shoot over the amazon or somewheres perrrrty...

[catbirdseat]

Free solo everything. You don't need much money for that except perhaps air fare. Leave a will so the money goes to your favorite charities. Make sure you remember timmy and jon in your will. They got expenses you know.

 

"Where there's a will, prosperity is just around the corner". --W.C. Fields.

[rbw1966]

And for those who want to leave this world with a bang: cool ways to kill yourself

[catbirdseat]

You can't top AlpineK's tree chipper.

[iain]

scrabble battlecage to the death.

[arlen]

Idea 1:

I wanna take the last breath I'm entitled to, so no free soloing for me, thanks. I'd look up that partner that always got on my nerves, and make sure I'm on the exposed pitch of a sweet big route when it's time to get room temperature. Let 'em figure out what to do next.

 

Idea 2:

I'd spend 17 cents on a postcard to the return address that explains how heads don't just explode but thanks for the coinage.

[catbirdseat]

scrabble battlecage to the death.

It would be terribly gruesome.

[Figger_Eight]

It depends on where Annabelle is climbing that month.

[ChocChick]

I would travel to all the places I have dreamed of climbing - with my boyfriend - and make sure I have at least 3 times a day. No soloing for me, I don't want to be lonely when my brain explodes. Hopefully that will happen on a summit or during .

 

[whirlwind]

i already live like i'll be dead next yr, cept it'd be way more fun with money ( more traveling and climbing)