10 Reasons Climbers are Successful in Life

In #6, it says "a sign of how sadistic" climbers are. Shouldn't this be "masochistic"?

Regardless, this article is awesome! Any of you dirtbags out there hitting the job market now, read this. I've strategically mentioned my climbing experience during job interviews a lot. It always sparks interest, prompts curiosity, and opens up the floor for you to describe what it's like and draw parallels to your professional character.

Way to give 130%!

horse puckey if you ask me.

With all due respect, #3 saying "Someone who on one day had to use a cut piece of backpack strap to build an anchor in order to safely lower off of a long route in the waning daylight"

Is it really that smart? We all know backpack strap webbing are not rated for taking too much load. Unless that backpack is made with climbing webbing

I can't even bring myself to read that. There should be a vomit icon for this kind of thing.

Ryan Williams wrote:I can't even bring myself to read that. There should be a vomit icon for this kind of thing.

I am left wondering what the 10 reasons are. He listed 13.

Gheyest. Blog. Ever.

#14 They are good at kissing their own asses with big heads

so after all the sparkling reviews of yet another dudes blog I didnt open it but I will say of all sports/hobbies I have been involved with, ultimate players are the most successful in life.

climbers tend to smoke too much dope, dont like real jobs and are just dirty, lazy turds in general.

Fall Guy wrote:so after all the sparkling reviews of yet another dudes blog I didnt open it but I will say of all sports/hobbies I have been involved with, ultimate players are the most successful in life. climbers tend to smoke too much dope, dont like real jobs and are just dirty, lazy turds in general.

Who said climbers are successful in life? By whose metric? And.. all climbers, or just some?

robrobrobrob wrote:Who said climbers are successful in life? By whose metric? And.. all climbers, or just some?

that seriously might be the worst climbing blog on the internet

That was the dumbest sh!t I have read in a long time. Not that I came close to finishing it.

This blog touched on a few things unique to climbing/climbers, but it certainly didn't warrant a 10-13 point article about it. I haven't been to a crag yet that I didn't come across a couple of bums who were being a general nuisance to the climbing community. Certainly not an example of sucess. This truly could be applied to any sport. This is something I would expect to read on the wall of a guidance counselor's office at a high school. Oh and as sucessful as we climbers are, if we go by your shining example we are certainly terrible at grammar and spelling which, if I'm not mistaken, is rather important to being sucessful in the business world.

It was a good idea at heart but the execution was terrible.

Ben Brotelho wrote: I will further complicate the quandary: what is success in life?

Matt N wrote: Procreation. Welfare Queens have us all beat. The solo dirtbag climber is quite unsuccessful in life.

There is so much advertising crammed into the article I didn't even want to read it.

The most successful climbers I know don't have a job.

Correlation does not imply causation. Climbing may make people "successful", or "successful" people may be more prone to climbing.