and carabiners are essential parts of any trad climber’s standard kit. (You’ll also hear slings called runners, which is short for “running belay,” meaning any protection point between stationary belay stances.) With a combination of these four main components, you can extend pieces from ...
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There is a reason why Elemental Man has become a ‘thing’. Or rather for several reasons. And they are all listed above. It is because the modern male is pampered, ineffectual, rudderless, emasculated: it is because he has been called out by #metoo and all the rest. It is because ...