What is your climbing conspiracy theory?

There are huge, secret, alien bases inside El Cap and Devil’s Tower that the government has known about for decades! They made a movie about the Devil’s Tower one, so it’s gotta be true. 

Wait why doesn't Outside own MP?

Also there are TWO types of climber's chalk: good stuff that's cheap, made by people in terrible working conditions for slave wages

and good stuff that's stupid expensive. 

You have to take your pick. 

Long Rangerwrote:

Also there are TWO types of climber's chalk: good stuff that's cheap, made by people in terrible working conditions for slave wages

and good stuff that's stupid expensive. 

You have to take your pick. 

If friction labs had better working conditions for chalk miners/refiners, they would've used that from the get-go as the selling point instead of their BS pseudoscience about chalk 'contaminants' (which they conveniently dropped after a few chemists debunked their claims using their college lab equipment).

Jesus Crimpin Christwrote:

All of the chalk companies source their stuff from the same place

This is actually pretty true, Yuncheng Chemical Industrial supplies most of the chalk if you search them on Import Yeti (a site used to find suppliers and see who is shipping what where) you can see that Friction Labs, Flashed, Send Climbing, and maybe more use this manufacturer. Here is the search:  importyeti.com/supplier/yun…

That's a really cool site. Where/how do we find where Metolius sources their chalk? The price diff between them and Friction Labs is a country mile.

Connor Moynihanwrote:

This is actually pretty true, Yuncheng Chemical Industrial supplies most of the chalk if you search them on Import Yeti (a site used to find suppliers and see who is shipping what where) you can see that Friction Labs, Flashed, Send Climbing, and maybe more use this manufacturer. Here is the search:  importyeti.com/supplier/yun…

this is awesome

the benefits of chalk are psychological at best.

Access Fund secretly owns Mountain Project so it can work to blow up spots thus necessitating the need for Access Lobbying.

Big Gym and the shoe companies/resolers are conspiring against the common man with their 80 grit walls that make it impossible to not thrash your shoes to shreds, even with immaculate footwork. Gyms are making massive payouts to resolers and shoe companies to keep propagating the myth that textured walls are what the people want, when in reality they lead to micro-rubber particles in the air which, along with the excessive chalk dust, mess with our hormones and are making us infertile. DO YOUR RESEARCH

But seriously, does anybody actually like textured walls??

Alex Honnold is a robot. 

It's obvious from his lifeless eyes and strange demeanor.

NIGHT HAWK wrote:

Alex Honnold is a robot. 

It's obvious from his lifeless eyes and strange demeanor.

Alex Honnold is obviously Mark Zuckerberg in a human suit. 

Chalk is just sheetrock dust.

Aluminum dust on ropes toxic via hand contamination? anyone heard of this one? Heard it in Boulder  After a day Climbing Eldo. 

"dirty ropes are the worst"

to not be poisoned rock climbers gotta wear belay and rappel gloves every time and wash your rope often to remove the black stuff that gets on your hands from the rope rubbing aluminum biners 

"what if the black oxidized aluminium dust on climbers hands can permiate the skin and enter the human blood stream and then cross the blood brain barrier and poison the brain? possible symptoms include early on set dimentia and alzheimers"

Maybe Considerwrote:

Aluminum dust on ropes toxic via hand contamination? anyone heard of this one? Heard it in Boulder  After a day Climbing Eldo. 

Is it along the lines of "vaccines cause autism" and "antiperspirants cause breast cancer"?

I certainly wouldn't make a habit of breathing in particles of aluminum.

Spraying beta actually helps climbers be better.

Zach Harrisonwrote:

That the reason we all suck at climbing is finger strength not mental game or body awareness, big hangboard has been perpetuating this for profit.

True! Climbers with strong hands don’t have to grip as hard. And they can grip holds that most of us can’t. It’s mostly genetic. The “best” climbers are not worthy of our respect. We can be amazed, though. Their sponsors would have us believe that we can climb 5.14 if we wear their shoes and use their ropes. And replace those ropes every few years, even if stored in a closet the whole time. 

Maybe Considerwrote:

"what if the black oxidized aluminium dust on climbers hands can permiate the skin and enter the human blood stream and then cross the blood brain barrier and poison the brain? possible symptoms include early on set dimentia and alzheimers"

Damn, now the supertopo forums make so much sense

Maybe Considerwrote:

"what if the black oxidized aluminium dust on climbers hands can permiate the skin and enter the human blood stream and then cross the blood brain barrier and poison the brain? possible symptoms include early on set dimentia and alzheimers"

That’s why I left my #3 on the ground!

Climbers are intelligent.