Whipper

Upside-down whippers are dangerous but almost always avoidable... so learn to avoid them.

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Even if he were wearing a helmet, this would've hurt.

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Usually the external dangers for climbers are loose rocks and the like. But turns out thorn bushes have it out for us, too.

Who says toprope whips can't be epic?

Some would say dynoing near the top of a highball is a bad idea. Some would also say screw that and huck for it anyway, as our brave whippee did this week.

This Weekend Whipper serves up a double whammy of bone-cracking gnarliness.

In trying to pull off the "Crime of the Century," a classic 5.11c finger crack in Squamish, this climber gets caught red handed and takes a big fall.

Said Max Donovan, "I was lucky to walk away with scrapes and we are all grateful that this was a learning experience and not a tragedy."

Half ropes for the win on this one. If Peter Aarhaug had been on a single rope here... we shudder to think of it.

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