Subnostr

I grew up climbing in Yosemite and I knew over a dozen people who have splatted base or wingsuiting. The margins are SOOO fine with that and the survival rate is really low overall. My time now paragliding has mostly killed my desire to jump as the gliding is more my mental statet now. In my youth I would have jumped given the chance but not now. There always seems to be the tendency to push things further and further and I'm kinda happy I'm still feeling fear so I don't get myself in ove my head. We have speed wings that I can go to is I feel the need for speed and proximity flying.

nobody 1y ago

Yeah my hot rodding days are over. Wow that’s cool you spent time at Yosemite. I’ve been following Dan Osman (deceased)and Alex Honnold for a long time. My uncle did a BASE off El Cap in 1980 with a round parachute. That was before it was so easy to get arrested doing it.

We were fortunate to have a destination rock climbing area where I lived in my early 20’s. Some of the best days of my life on those bluffs above Skaha Lake in Penticton BC.

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Flemingfarm 1y ago

I grew up at the south entrance so it was always there. Yosemite is the most insane meca for climbing and El Cap is the best wall in the world. I climbed the nose for my first time in 96 and we were the party in front of Erik Weihenmayer, the blind climber. We topped out and there was a news crew there who interviewed us before Erik topped out. Such a wild experience for my first Elcap route. Alex is a psycho but also the least fearful climber in the world and he has been tested to show he has a much lower stress response than most every other human.