The mountaineering equivalent of singlespeeding?

[Globalti]

The writer makes much of the purity and simplicity of climbing with a single long ice axe and nailed boots instead of carrying all the equipment modern climbers use:

http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=5011

 

[Night Train]

So what would the equivalent of free climbing be?

 

[Drago]

A naked ride on a unicycle.

 

[ColinJ]

So what would the equivalent of free climbing be?

I'm sure that somebody must have done it, but it would be totally crazy - nude free climbing (not even using climbing shoes)?

 

[Fnaar]

Sliding down an icy mountain on a metal tea tray sounds more like single-speeding to me

 

[Globalti]

One of the early covers of the French Vertical magazine featured a very shapely young woman climbing in a bikini and when you opened it... same cover but topless! Eek! Sadly I sold all my Verticals to a collector. Sniff.

 

[classic33]

I'm sure that somebody must have done it, but it would be totally crazy - nude free climbing (not even using climbing shoes)?

I know its not free climbing but...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/notm/662540302/

 

[classic33]

I know its not free climbing but...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/notm/662540302/

This on the other hand is..
http://www.themorningstarr.co.uk/2008/07/14/naked-rock-climbing/

 

[Fnaar]

I'm sure that somebody must have done it, but it would be totally crazy - nude free climbing (not even using climbing shoes)?

All you have to do (probably) is to google naked +peaks +fleshy

 

[ColinJ]

I'm sure that somebody must have done it, but it would be totally crazy - nude free climbing (not even using climbing shoes)?

Ha ha - I should have Googled it - link!

 

[ComedyPilot]

A naked ride on a unicycle.

Wouldn't that be juggling balls too?

 

[Pauluk]

I sometimes think that solo climbers, who climb without the relatively safety of ropes, have a death wish. I can't think of many other sports that require such a high level of total concentration and discipline.

 

[Night Train]

Ha ha - I should have Googled it - link!

Don't climbers have a chalk bag somewhere?

I sometimes think that solo climbers, who climb without the relatively safety of ropes, have a death wish. I can't think of many other sports that require such a high level of total concentration and discipline.

My late brother was a rock climber and mountaineer.
He free climbed once only. He didn't have a death wish so once was enough.

 

[ColinJ]

Don't climbers have a chalk bag somewhere?

I was thinking that too!

 

[classic33]

Don't climbers have a chalk bag somewhere?

My late brother was a rock climber and mountaineer.
He free climbed once only. He didn't have a death wish so once was enough.

Not all, depending on where your climbing local rules may not allow the use of chalk. Frowned upon in this area. Blake Dean Colin will know, not too certain about Robin Hood rocks though.
Damages the enviroment. If you ever go to an outside climb you will see where chalk has been used long after the visible white marking from its use is gone. The damage it causes can take years to recover from.