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> because "the first rule of free soloing club is..." …telling everyone that you’re a free soloist? Any busy weekend you can spot some conspicuous soloists on

• ke88y 3y ago
  Sure. There are two types of free soloing; the former gets talked about a lot and the latter is still not something people talk about very often. Or at leas the motivation behind it. And talking about the safer type even functions as a way of deflecting from conversations about the latter type ("oh it's really quite safe"). I think it's clear from my post that I mean the non-"5.7 jug fest/flatirons/etc." type people don't talk about. Sorry if I'm not being clear. In another comment I called it "soloing as a sort of suicidal release that hopefully doesn't end in death". The difficulty isn't as important or the point; it's the sort of climbing where, for the climber, there's very little or no margin. Which for some could be some very easy thing. It's relative. I mean the mental health aspect, and how it correlates with risk selection, not the climbing per se.