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In the red corner, we have the traddie cragsters, helmetted, hex-laden and ethical to the brim.
In the blue corner, we have the sport climbers, looking a little peaky on their diet of couscous and air.
In the yellow corner, we have the boulderers, skulking around bare-chested and beanied.
In the, er, green corner, we have the mountaineers and alpinists, looking weatherbeaten and hairy.
Completing our pentagon is a miscellaneous jumble in which we have exclusive ice climbers, big-wall aid climbers, scramblers, perverts and pedants.
But which is the sexiest?
In the blue corner, we have the sport climbers, looking a little peaky on their diet of couscous and air.
In the yellow corner, we have the boulderers, skulking around bare-chested and beanied.
In the, er, green corner, we have the mountaineers and alpinists, looking weatherbeaten and hairy.
Completing our pentagon is a miscellaneous jumble in which we have exclusive ice climbers, big-wall aid climbers, scramblers, perverts and pedants.
But which is the sexiest?
In reply to hexcentric: Wall rats?
In reply to Gareth Uglow:
I have noticed that people you see down at the indoor wall are always much more attractive than the people you see at a crag.
> (In reply to hexcentric) Wall rats?
I have noticed that people you see down at the indoor wall are always much more attractive than the people you see at a crag.
In reply to Choss Weasel: and better housetrained.
I've never turned a corner at a wall to find someone pooping half way up (deliberately, anyway)
I've never turned a corner at a wall to find someone pooping half way up (deliberately, anyway)
In reply to hexcentric:
The hairy unwashed smelly big wall climbers! Only the female variety of course!
The hairy unwashed smelly big wall climbers! Only the female variety of course!
In reply to Choss Weasel:
That's because they are wearing fewer clothes.
> I have noticed that people you see down at the indoor wall are always much more attractive than the people you see at a crag.
That's because they are wearing fewer clothes.
In reply to NorthernRock: A while back I was at Neilston with a friend and there were two very manly looking women there. My friend turned to me and in a Monty Pythonesque type voice said "climbing women!...or women you would NOT want to shag!". They heard him and came over demanding to know exactly what he said. We jumped in the car and fled!
In reply to Rich Mayfield:
Is DWS sexy? In King Lines maybe, in Hard XS not so much.
For my money, I reckon bouldering is probably the sexiest, so long as all the mega-geeky vocab is avoided and not too many power-screams are emitted.
Is DWS sexy? In King Lines maybe, in Hard XS not so much.
For my money, I reckon bouldering is probably the sexiest, so long as all the mega-geeky vocab is avoided and not too many power-screams are emitted.
In reply to hexcentric: naked DWS (ladies only)
In reply to Raskye:
Not the ones who think they are sexy.
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Not the ones who think they are sexy.
In reply to hexcentric: i got giggly at the sight of La Sportivas in the climbing wall the other day... (ahhem)
In reply to hexcentric: Any girl resting on a heelhook. Does it get much better than that?
In reply to higherclimbingwales:
I have it on good authority that Cirus Dog was first climbed in nothing more than a mask and snorkle and fins!
I have it on good authority that Cirus Dog was first climbed in nothing more than a mask and snorkle and fins!
In reply to hexcentric:
In what way is pebble wrestling 3m of the ground above a mattress sexy?
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> Is DWS sexy? In King Lines maybe, in Hard XS not so much.
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> For my money, I reckon bouldering is probably the sexiest, so long as all the mega-geeky vocab is avoided and not too many power-screams are emitted.
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> Is DWS sexy? In King Lines maybe, in Hard XS not so much.
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> For my money, I reckon bouldering is probably the sexiest, so long as all the mega-geeky vocab is avoided and not too many power-screams are emitted.
In what way is pebble wrestling 3m of the ground above a mattress sexy?
In reply to Choss Weasel:
You shoulda seen the 5ft 10 blonde babe climbing at shepherds the other week, she woulda defo changed your mind
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You shoulda seen the 5ft 10 blonde babe climbing at shepherds the other week, she woulda defo changed your mind
In reply to NorthernRock:
Hahaha. Unfortunately this seems to be my subconscious' way of deciding who I find sexy.
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> The one you don't stand a chance with!
Hahaha. Unfortunately this seems to be my subconscious' way of deciding who I find sexy.
In reply to hexcentric: I think this is the perfect thread
to re post this classic: http://www.ehow.com/how_2093877_shag-portaledge.html
Clearly big wall.
to re post this classic: http://www.ehow.com/how_2093877_shag-portaledge.html
Clearly big wall.
In reply to hexcentric:
When your having fun its doesnt matter what you do or how your doing it cos you cant beat a crackin smile - corny I know but its true!!!
When your having fun its doesnt matter what you do or how your doing it cos you cant beat a crackin smile - corny I know but its true!!!
In reply to jonny2vests:
Oh no, you're one of those.
In truth it's not very sexy, but just look at the competition.
Trad, for example: bumblies heavily laden with clanking bits of metal making slow and hesitant progress, shuffling about on ledges, shouting irritably at their belayer, wearing helmets...sooo not sexy.
Oh no, you're one of those.
In truth it's not very sexy, but just look at the competition.
Trad, for example: bumblies heavily laden with clanking bits of metal making slow and hesitant progress, shuffling about on ledges, shouting irritably at their belayer, wearing helmets...sooo not sexy.
In reply to hexcentric:
Wide bridging in my split crotch Ronhills often attracts admiring glances from the ladies.
Wide bridging in my split crotch Ronhills often attracts admiring glances from the ladies.
In reply to Choss Weasel:
Probably due to the fact that spandex and thongs aren't worn as much at the crag!
> I have noticed that people you see down at the indoor wall are always much more attractive than the people you see at a crag.
Probably due to the fact that spandex and thongs aren't worn as much at the crag!
In reply to Removed User:
Not even joking, I almost vomited when I read this.
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> Wide bridging in my split crotch Ronhills often attracts admiring glances from the ladies.
> Wide bridging in my split crotch Ronhills often attracts admiring glances from the ladies.
Not even joking, I almost vomited when I read this.
In reply to Choss Weasel:
Aaah, the "f**k or fight" neither one has much appeal!!
> (In reply to NorthernRock) A while back I was at Neilston with a friend and there were two very manly looking women there. My friend turned to me and in a Monty Pythonesque type voice said "climbing women!...or women you would NOT want to shag!". They heard him and came over demanding to know exactly what he said. We jumped in the car and fled!
Aaah, the "f**k or fight" neither one has much appeal!!
In reply to Choss Weasel: Being a very girly girl out of my harness and still being a relatively good climber I take this as an offence!
And lets not generalise: there are very hot lean sport climbers, manly trad climbers and a lot of topless boulderers that all are capable of distracting me from my own climb
And lets not generalise: there are very hot lean sport climbers, manly trad climbers and a lot of topless boulderers that all are capable of distracting me from my own climb
In reply to hexcentric: Dogging?
In reply to hexcentric:
Some prefer fingery and others think thuggy is the way. Personally I go for gymnastic with a few technical moves.
Some prefer fingery and others think thuggy is the way. Personally I go for gymnastic with a few technical moves.
In reply to krasavenko:
Well judging from your profile pic you are indeed a girly looking girl, and a very attractive one at that. I shouldn't have generalised. Most of the climbing women I've seen at crags up here wear old Ron Hills,have cropped in hair and faces like a road-map! Yet you go to the indoor wall and it's the total opposite. Maybe that's just in Glasgow though!
> (In reply to Choss Weasel) Being a very girly girl out of my harness and still being a relatively good climber I take this as an offence!
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Well judging from your profile pic you are indeed a girly looking girl, and a very attractive one at that. I shouldn't have generalised. Most of the climbing women I've seen at crags up here wear old Ron Hills,have cropped in hair and faces like a road-map! Yet you go to the indoor wall and it's the total opposite. Maybe that's just in Glasgow though!
In reply to Choss Weasel:
Yep. Most of the girls I've seen at crags round the Peak and South West look cute even with clanging hexes and waterproof jackets.
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Yep. Most of the girls I've seen at crags round the Peak and South West look cute even with clanging hexes and waterproof jackets.
In reply to Choss Weasel: "Well judging from your profile pic", is she the one on the left or right?
In reply to hexcentric:
The sexiest type of Climbing?
A bit of old fashioned crack jamming ...especially if the protection is reliable!
The sexiest type of Climbing?
A bit of old fashioned crack jamming ...especially if the protection is reliable!
Big wall free climbers....
http://www.getoutdoors.com/goblog/uploads/beth.jpg
http://www.up-climbing.com/cache/images/photo_132.jpg
http://www.getoutdoors.com/goblog/uploads/beth.jpg
http://www.up-climbing.com/cache/images/photo_132.jpg
In reply to Choss Weasel: well to be honest I did crop my hair- but it's still styled not just chopped
Proportionally speaking there are more hot girls that guys climbers - but it may be just EUMC ....
Proportionally speaking there are more hot girls that guys climbers - but it may be just EUMC ....
In reply to Tom_Harding: I was going to agree but then you put those two pics up. Dude, no. However I think you may be onto something - american girl climbers (and if I'm honest, the other way round too?) are often damn hot. Fillies who have been brought up by daddy dragging them out to the crag and camping etc, and then them blossoming into hotties. Could do with a volume knob though.
In reply to Removed User:
I think we have a winner!
I think we have a winner!
In reply to mike kann: Come on mike, Beth NO, what are you thinking of man??? Stephs nice but that pic isent that flattering, my other option was lynn hill im happy with steph.....
scrub that last line
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CQuiVJalJ1M/SYo9zcLel3I/AAAAAAAAAGM/IgwIJhZ3koE/s...
Lynn was lovley in the 80s
scrub that last line
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CQuiVJalJ1M/SYo9zcLel3I/AAAAAAAAAGM/IgwIJhZ3koE/s...
Lynn was lovley in the 80s
In reply to hexcentric: can i change the orignal shape to a pentagon, so i can put forward another type of climbing:
in the skybluepink corner: Boxering, the act of bouldering in your underpants in a blizzard.
its true it is a type of climbing, i have a short film of it somewhere...
in the skybluepink corner: Boxering, the act of bouldering in your underpants in a blizzard.
its true it is a type of climbing, i have a short film of it somewhere...
In reply to DreadyCraig: just because she's wearing a bikini ....
In reply to krasavenko:
Lucky guys in the EUMC then!
> (In reply to Choss Weasel) well to be honest I did crop my hair- but it's still styled not just chopped
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> Proportionally speaking there are more hot girls that guys climbers - but it may be just EUMC ....
Lucky guys in the EUMC then!
In reply to hexcentric:
Well toned and tanned guys climbing at a high level & moving over rock in strong, calculated and fluid movements are very very sexy - I really don't mind what, how or where they are climbing then! Oh and then it's totally fine by me if they take their shirts off as well ;0) Even better still is if they can string rational sentences together and hold conversations when they're on terra firma!
Well toned and tanned guys climbing at a high level & moving over rock in strong, calculated and fluid movements are very very sexy - I really don't mind what, how or where they are climbing then! Oh and then it's totally fine by me if they take their shirts off as well ;0) Even better still is if they can string rational sentences together and hold conversations when they're on terra firma!
In reply to Ireddek: haha couldn't agree more
In reply to hexcentric:
Ha, maybe a little. I do enjoy bouldering, good moves, good training and good banter. I like 'adventure' more though.
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Ha, maybe a little. I do enjoy bouldering, good moves, good training and good banter. I like 'adventure' more though.
In reply to Removed User:
<winces>
> (In reply to Removed Userhexcentric)
> Wide bridging in my split crotch Ronhills often attracts admiring glances from the ladies.
> Wide bridging in my split crotch Ronhills often attracts admiring glances from the ladies.
<winces>
In reply to hexcentric:
Blokes with good backs. And I mean, gooooood backs. The poster who wrote about trad climbers bimbling about yelling at their belayer - bang on. So, possibly a bit of shirt off sports climbing in the summer.
Blokes with good backs. And I mean, gooooood backs. The poster who wrote about trad climbers bimbling about yelling at their belayer - bang on. So, possibly a bit of shirt off sports climbing in the summer.
In reply to jonny2vests:
It isn't. Alpinists are far more sexy.
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It isn't. Alpinists are far more sexy.
In reply to Annette:
Hell yes. some blodderer or bolt botherer with his top off is no way close to a swarthy weather beaten, ennervated sweating alpinist, back from days on the hill. Even I look vaguely cool, proving that if you cannot polish a turd, you can at least buff it to a dull shine.
Hell yes. some blodderer or bolt botherer with his top off is no way close to a swarthy weather beaten, ennervated sweating alpinist, back from days on the hill. Even I look vaguely cool, proving that if you cannot polish a turd, you can at least buff it to a dull shine.
In reply to Annette:
totally agree! give me weather beaten off the hill any day!
all those idiots pouncing round with their shirts off seeing who can emit the most testosterone is just a little annoying and pathetic?
totally agree! give me weather beaten off the hill any day!
all those idiots pouncing round with their shirts off seeing who can emit the most testosterone is just a little annoying and pathetic?
In reply to hexcentric: surely a trad-head not bumbling, but instead pushing themselves on hard and/or runout ground is far sexier than a sport climber?? if not then that may explain my lack of relationship luck lately....ive been climbng too much trad...
In reply to dunkymonkey17:
You are all wrong.
It is a guy called Trent, at the Kazzle, doing 2 hours of yoga after some hard core ultimate frisbee or softball, telling all who will isten that he can onsight 9k and then lead 4g.
Of course, this has nothing to do with the fact he looks like Jude Law.
You are all wrong.
It is a guy called Trent, at the Kazzle, doing 2 hours of yoga after some hard core ultimate frisbee or softball, telling all who will isten that he can onsight 9k and then lead 4g.
Of course, this has nothing to do with the fact he looks like Jude Law.
In reply to hexcentric: Try the Bikini Boulderers on Facebook...
In reply to hexcentric:
I remember going DWSing in Mallorca. Climbing up perfect rock in gorgeous sunshine above an azure blue sea, yachts a short distance away, none of the faff and hassle of ropes and gear and goretex. All the other climbers were immaculately tanned and toned, using overhanging 6c+ as descent routes. Beautiful girls climbing 7bs, fearless foreigners diving off from 20m. Us Brits, who had previously thought we could climb because we'd lead E1 or E2, shuffled our pallid flabby selves along whatever low-level 6b the guidebook described as the approach to the climbs, before flopping into the water. I thought back to my climbing apprenticeship, udging myself up grim chimneys in the rain, and thinking I'd gone wrong somewhere.
I remember going DWSing in Mallorca. Climbing up perfect rock in gorgeous sunshine above an azure blue sea, yachts a short distance away, none of the faff and hassle of ropes and gear and goretex. All the other climbers were immaculately tanned and toned, using overhanging 6c+ as descent routes. Beautiful girls climbing 7bs, fearless foreigners diving off from 20m. Us Brits, who had previously thought we could climb because we'd lead E1 or E2, shuffled our pallid flabby selves along whatever low-level 6b the guidebook described as the approach to the climbs, before flopping into the water. I thought back to my climbing apprenticeship, udging myself up grim chimneys in the rain, and thinking I'd gone wrong somewhere.
In reply to hexcentric: what about some examples?
trad: dave birkett (hmmm)
johnny dawes (odd boyish charm..?)
sport: steve mcclure (short and bald...?)
adam ondra (maybe a little young-plus the mop!)
bouldering: chris sharma (certainly no james bond, maybe a little hippy charm)
ben moon (quite a looker actually!)
mountaineers/alpinists: ueli steck (monobrow- need I say more)
nico favresse (under the persistent beard theres a looker)
any more thoughts?
I reckon the alpinists may have the edge in that more of them are french/austrian/italian, and therefore sexier...
trad: dave birkett (hmmm)
johnny dawes (odd boyish charm..?)
sport: steve mcclure (short and bald...?)
adam ondra (maybe a little young-plus the mop!)
bouldering: chris sharma (certainly no james bond, maybe a little hippy charm)
ben moon (quite a looker actually!)
mountaineers/alpinists: ueli steck (monobrow- need I say more)
nico favresse (under the persistent beard theres a looker)
any more thoughts?
I reckon the alpinists may have the edge in that more of them are french/austrian/italian, and therefore sexier...
In reply to hexcentric: having said that, how do the ladies feel about snotsicles, having a pot off poo in your bag, and that special smell after two days of hard exercise, and a night in a tiny hole with another man...?
In reply to Removed User: I met her font a few weeks ago,
we were at the campsite, ratherjolly, and she and her friends invited us over to their camp to play some music for them, they then gave us wine and cheese, and sang to us in slovenian!
I thought she looked good then, didnt realise she climbed this well too!
we were at the campsite, ratherjolly, and she and her friends invited us over to their camp to play some music for them, they then gave us wine and cheese, and sang to us in slovenian!
I thought she looked good then, didnt realise she climbed this well too!
In reply to John Rushby:
Made me smile!
Mick
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> ...proving that if you cannot polish a turd, you can at least buff it to a dull shine.
Made me smile!
Mick
In reply to Steeve: Wot, no Tim Emmett?
In reply to sarah79:
Just for you Sarah a couple of shots of my shirt-off addicted climbing partner Sean:
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=124400
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=122802
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> Blokes with good backs. And I mean, gooooood backs. The poster who wrote about trad climbers bimbling about yelling at their belayer - bang on. So, possibly a bit of shirt off sports climbing in the summer.
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> Blokes with good backs. And I mean, gooooood backs. The poster who wrote about trad climbers bimbling about yelling at their belayer - bang on. So, possibly a bit of shirt off sports climbing in the summer.
Just for you Sarah a couple of shots of my shirt-off addicted climbing partner Sean:
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=124400
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=122802
In reply to hexcentric: http://www.stonenudes.com/
In reply to The Ivanator:
Socks on under his climbing shoes?! I'm sorry, but the hunky naked-backed look is TOTALLY ruined by socks!
Ben
Socks on under his climbing shoes?! I'm sorry, but the hunky naked-backed look is TOTALLY ruined by socks!
Ben
In reply to Ben Darvill:
He is the master of the Fashion faux-pas:
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=141980
He is the master of the Fashion faux-pas:
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=141980
In reply to jral: wowza!
In reply to The Ivanator: well that's not bad at all
In reply to hexcentric:
ok iam know iam new to all this but....i fail to see how naked women are capturing the true essence of the climbing spirit??? (see words you probably failed to read before pictures of afore mentioned naked women?!)
i am liking the hot back photos tho.....I am even willing to admit I may have been a bit premature in my dismissal of the shirt off look?! although it is a little disappointing when he puts the jumper on? did is gran knit him it for xmas?
ok iam know iam new to all this but....i fail to see how naked women are capturing the true essence of the climbing spirit??? (see words you probably failed to read before pictures of afore mentioned naked women?!)
i am liking the hot back photos tho.....I am even willing to admit I may have been a bit premature in my dismissal of the shirt off look?! although it is a little disappointing when he puts the jumper on? did is gran knit him it for xmas?
In reply to welshgemma: naked girls is the reason i started climbing.
In reply to welshgemma: I for one did read the words, and to be honest i agree. I think it's something to do with being one with nature or some gubbins like that....
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