What is the point of climbing?

Beats working?

Aleks Zebastian wrote:Climbing friend, The point of pulling with your crushing grip your way up the climbing rocks is to make bold flash, sculpt your guns, and yes, to do the impressing of others around you with your abilities and your muscley neck and back meat when you would remove your shirt. I would find some people they also enjoy the mental and physical challenge, rather than only sit depress in front of television or playing with themselves.

Why do any recreational activity? Same reasons but climbing is better.

Two questions

Why do you enjoy rappelling?

Why do you enjoy abseiling?

What is the point in asking?

Assessment of one's physical, mental and technical capacities. It's usually fun. Beautiful Scenery. Intimate method to experiencing one's environments. Badass.

for the fame and fortune, of course!

Aleks Zebastian wrote:Climbing friend, [...] rather than only sit depress in front of television or playing with themselves.

Paul Hutton wrote:Two questions Why do you enjoy rappelling? Why do you enjoy abseiling?

Good question. I guess I'll be quittting now...

I struggle with this sometimes. I wonder if I spent my time doing something else would I be in a better position in life. I hold my dad responsible for this. He always says, "if you can't do it in jungle boots and a 50 pound ruck, I'm not impressed." He'd be one of those "shoes are aid" guys if he was a climber.

I justify climbing to myself by repeating all the above posts. All the cool places, the fitness, quiets the voices. To me, these are good reasons. I love this earth and to me, climbing is the best way to see and explore it. I don't enjoy following a well traveled path. All of the most beautiful places in this world are rarely seen and experienced.

for me, climbing provides a vehicle for self-actualization. When I'm climbing, I feel like I'm actually living life rather than just letting it pass by around me.

Here are some of the things I like about climbing:

Physically and mentally challenging
Good exercise
Get to be outdoors
Gives a sense of achievement
Socializing
Fiddling with gear
Planning for routes
Allows me something to think about during mundane tasks
Learning new things
Adventure

Climbing's got a lot going for it, from my perspective.

Chicks. Next question?

climbing has also given me goals and motivation to do something with my life and historically greats climbers such as the Iron Monkey give me a role model that I hadn't been able to find previously

I want to swim with the red serpents in the golden desert.

Isn't it obvious? It is our obsessive and addictive human nature

I feel like this is applicable;
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btw I understand that its a troll, but I've been drinking. which makes me prone to feeding trolls, and sharing off the wall barely coherent assocations.

frank minunni wrote:I can only masturbate so much

OP- Why do people rappel face first with their arms out to their sides. "weeeee, I'm a bird!!!"