Was I Wrong To Call For a Rescue?
With help just a button push away, deciding when you need a rescue can become the problem. (From 2021)
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Weekend Whipper: Falling Ice Causes Upside-Down Gear Ripper
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Weekend Whipper: Confident Ice Climber Commits Cardinal Sin
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Our Top 10 Weekend Whippers of 2021, From Harrowing to Hilarious
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What Happens When the Leader Falls? A Risk Scientist Reflects on a Risk-filled Climbing Career
Most risk scientists live risk-minimal lives, but Robert Charles Lee and his wife, Linda Cook, devoted their spare time to alpine and ice climbing. Now retired, Lee has written a book about risk, climbing, and partnership. In this excerpt he writes about the time he broke the cardinal rule of ice climbing: don't fall.