olyclimber Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Not familiar with this guy myself, maybe some of you are: http://origin.sltrib.com/ci_8045058 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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fear_and_greed Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Everyone who gets out of bed in the morning faces varying degrees of risk. We climbers and skiers push the limits sometimes looking for whatever high gets us out in the first place. But looking at the video makes me think that you can only pull the tail of a sleeping tiger so many times before it wakes up and eats you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 OQJNxXk8ZHU the guy took a pretty tough art to express himself with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Conway Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Everyone who gets out of bed in the morning faces varying degrees of risk. We climbers and skiers push the limits sometimes looking for whatever high gets us out in the first place. But looking at the video makes me think that you can only pull the tail of a sleeping tiger so many times before it wakes up and eats you. Yes. Engaging in statistically riskier behavior will produce more accidents on average across the population. Discussions of risk whether it be from avalanche, cliff, or just steeps reminds me much of amateur discussions of the stock market. Few participants have bothered to quantify their risk, few are capable of doing it, but everyone is convinced that because they were succesful a handful of times there method is fool proof. More dangerously they are convinced that because someone lost once that method was obviously inferior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulB Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Discussions of risk whether it be from avalanche, cliff, or just steeps... On a related note, the film Steep started playing here in Vancouver today. I think it's been playing for a month or so south of the border. ... you can only pull the tail of a sleeping tiger so many times before it wakes up and eats you. A point that apparently comes home watching the Doug Coombs' interviews in Steep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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