Well elsewhere in this thread I've pointed out that the black hole evaporates before the infalling observer ever crosses the event horizon. If you have a class

Well elsewhere in this thread I've pointed out that the black hole evaporates before the infalling observer ever crosses the event horizon. If you have a classical black hole and you don't bother yourself with how it forms, though, there's no paradox, the paradoxical effects arise because the areas of space-time become completely unreachable and you're using coordinate systems which are not local.