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Show Russell Jacobs 6 January 2010 But this was, you know, generally you're not making first ascents every day. You're not trying to be the first to do this or that. And you have other climbers that, yeah, any time you go to Camp Four, for example, in Yosemite, the old Camp Four, you hang around climbers that have done routes that you're interested in doing, and they're certainly willing to sit down and tell you, "You gotta do this, you gotta have this, you gotta have this equipment." You know? "You gotta be careful about this pitch because if you don't bring this particular little piece, you won't get through." MD: Um-hum. RJ: Climbers are very willing to give up information and help other climbers across the board. MD: Um-hum. RJ: It doesn't matter, uh, what nationality you are. Even if there's a language barrier, there's always a way to convey the information one is trying to gather from the other. Uh, and it's really out of the norm, very, extremely out of the norm not to accommodate. MD: Um-hum. RJ: Not to accommodate and be, you know ... because you could end up climbing with those people. They could be, you know, in tum, you could be on another climb and have a little, uh, have an episode of being desperate ... MD: Um-hum. RJ: ...and those ... you'll have climbers come to your rescue. For sure. Without thinking. So, yeah, it was a little out of the norm. And no, generally no. The climbing community is .. .it's kind of a tight knit group. 5 |
