After watching the original footage, and seeing the recent Johnny Dawes clip it reminded me of an extremely idiosyncratic and pretentious essay by the same called I believe ' A Glass of Water '.Peehaps that's where JD... Ada - 25 Nov 2009
Oh come on Locus Captian Kirk wouldn't be wanting climb with you anyway because he's above that. He'll be free climbing solo and if he gets into a bit of Sh@t! it will be beam me up Scotty quick! But will happen if the... Lone Rider - 25 Nov 2009
What the hell was Captain Kirk thinking eh? Of course it's a cliff, caused by the Sherwin Glaciation between 1 to 1.3 million years ago, everyone knows that. If Kirk was guiding me on El Cap, and he started singing me... Locus - 25 Nov 2009
He does the classic soloing / free climbing mix up. Seems to me a lot of yanks do this, maybe once free climbing meant unroped soloing in the US...? Or are they just all wrong. Soloing is also a very confused term... jonny2vests - 25 Nov 2009
Hi Chris, I think you've missed the point of this video entirely. Clearly Kirk is using the word 'mountain' as a metaphor. He could easily substitute it for 'cliff' but to the wider world 'mountain' has a broader sense... Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC - 25 Nov 2009
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