Listen now | “It’s Almost like a Three Dimensional Chess Game. I want to try to Visually Unlock the way Ahead.” Many of you in the climbing community have probably seen Jeremy Ashcroft’s work — even if you don’t know who he is. Jeremy started work as technical illustrator, doing precision drawings of complicated equipment.
I find this alone fascinating: "Jeremy found climbers in Colorado to be more tolerant of risk; skirting across high-exposure sections that European climbers would absolutely use roped protection to traverse."
I've found myself wondering if the 14ers present themselves as too approachable.
It's not hard to access some extremely dangerous terrain. In other places you could be trekking for hours, or even days before reaching a crux. In CO we have knife edge traverses within line-of-sight if busy parking lots. Especially solemn to consider today. I heard there may have been a serious fall on Capitol this weekend.
I find this alone fascinating: "Jeremy found climbers in Colorado to be more tolerant of risk; skirting across high-exposure sections that European climbers would absolutely use roped protection to traverse."
I've found myself wondering if the 14ers present themselves as too approachable.
It's not hard to access some extremely dangerous terrain. In other places you could be trekking for hours, or even days before reaching a crux. In CO we have knife edge traverses within line-of-sight if busy parking lots. Especially solemn to consider today. I heard there may have been a serious fall on Capitol this weekend.
Thanks for listening
That sounds accurate to me. Also just the outdoor American culture of “always do the hardest thing the hardest way”
I love the maps and the beta site. Excellent artwork. Thank you for the share, and wonderful info.
Thanks for listening! I'm glad you found it helpful!
Another interesting podcast.
Thank you so much for listening!