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> Humans leave their traces everywhere so why this principle for mountains? It’s called conservation. It is why we have these places to climb in the first plac
by chabes 3mo ago
> Humans leave their traces everywhere so why this principle for mountains?
It’s called conservation. It is why we have these places to climb in the first place. These are protected wild places.
- ofrzeta 3mo agoI am all for free climbing. But I don't really like this perspective from a high horse. So it's fine for comparatively rich people to fly there by plane to free climb Cerro Torre?
- chabes 3mo agoMy point is about letting wild places be wild, not about the environmental impact of climbing as a whole.
- dwd 3mo agoIt's about leaving it in the state you would like to have found it. No rubbish, no abandoned equipment, no bouldering-style puzzles already solved because someone has stuck a bolt there. I do wonder whether the boulderers find it annoying when a boulder is clearly already solved by the worn, chalk marked hand holds. Probably explains why many seek out new untouched sites to solve first.