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Yes guys. It's official. It was on the internet, so it must be true. Going Climbing Makes Women Fancy You.
We knew it all along, but this scientific survey undertaken by professionals and then published in the very exclusive journal of msn.com confirms our thoughts.

Rock climbing came fourth in...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=52388

In reply to UKC News:
After years of extensive personal research I can confirm that this is total b*ll*cks.

In reply to UKC News:

hmm perhaps that's because they imagine flowing locks on tanned buff (or whatever the phrase is) bodies in exotic locations.

As opposed to the reality of some skinny guy with glasses dossing on the floor of a cave waiting for it to be cold enough for his skin to 'stick' .

In reply to Serpico:

You have to trad climb.... ask the Perfect One. None of this sport climbing (unless you are Chris Sharma) or 'just' bouldering malarky.

In reply to UKC News: Good, well informed article. Women fancy Tom Cruise in Mission Improbable when he's doing that solo bit. Men fancy women on rocks in lakes. And most importantly? We get to see a photo of what we like, women have to imagine it. Job done.

In reply to iain_cbr:

good point. Mick and Jack, please can we have a picture of an attractive nekkid (or even semi-naked, I don't mind) climber man instead? It would be more suited to the article

In reply to Mick Ryan - UKClimbing.com:

I think you mean you have to have a (perennial) tan...

In reply to Tall Clare: Yes, that was what I intended to use, but then as I was browsing, I erm, stumbled upon that image and well, erm. Anyway.

What a lovely photograph.

Jack

In reply to Serpico:

I could point you to pictures of all sorts of chaps on here who aren't tanned but who, if the opportunity arose and I wasn't already otherwise engaged (as it were), I definitely would...

<ahem>

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

guffaw! If you need help in finding pictures of remarkably attractive climber men, I'm sure the ladeeez of UKC would be only too happy to rummage through the UKC picture archives for them.

In reply to Serpico:

Odd - I was going to say the very opposite!


Chris

In reply to Tall Clare:

Post the id number or link and I will add one in to the news item.

I couldn't possibly choose an attractive male photograph myself, as everyone knows that tough heterosexual men like me certainly wouldn't be able to tell what constitutes an attractive man, and we wouldn't be <caught> looking.

What - you callin' me gay?!

In reply to Tall Clare:

Stalker.
That's why I keep my profile pic vague...



...honest.

In reply to UKC News: Okay everyone, in the interests of science I have now updated the news item to include photographs of both male and female climbers.

You may need to refresh your browser to see the change.

You may need to refresh yourself with a cold shower too.

Jack

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

guffaw!

In reply to UKC News: I love the quote 'whilst men liked women who did Yoga and who could cook'

In reply to UKC News:
Chortle! This article is brilliant, and so is the thread!

In reply to Only a hill:

And the comments. I'm with this guy:

"Football? I play polo. Surely that makes women's panties wetter than an otter's pocket?!"

For the ladies that said "Rock Climbing", I think the reality of going out with a very serious sport climber who spends every waking moment training for, or on, their project at the Tor is a somewhat different reality to the one they'd imagined.

In reply to galpinos:

I went on a date with a polo player once. It was very odd. He was very nice but it all just felt a little too surreal.

In reply to Tall Clare:

Hmm, you found that picture in 3 minutes. did you have it book marked perchance?

In reply to ClimberEd:



Er, perhaps that's the image that women find attractive?

In reply to Oceanic:

lol, I just knew where to look

In reply to Tall Clare:

On his photo gallery you mean?

In reply to control freak:

hee hee

In reply to Serpico:

Ha ha. You have to be able to talk to women too!

Know which parts to tell them and which parts to leave out. If you tell it right instead of going into the fine details of rock protection or standing in a bar trying to demonstrate how to do a specific move and making a fool of yourself you will have their cloths falling off before you can even invite them back home.

3 days ago I was in the pub with my friend Mike, we were talking about a recent trip to the crag when the hottest young lady in the bar over heard us, after a quick chat she nipped off to grab her mate and they joined us for the evening asking about every question they could think of, at the end of the night both Mike and myself each exchanged numbers with one of the girls.

Climbing makes you sound really exciting and women love it! trust me it works for the rest of us regularly.

In reply to galpinos:


It does, but I am yet to fathom why. Unless it is implication of riches

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

I'm pretty sure I once snogged you (don't deny it, there may be photos).

In reply to Tall Clare:
All right, ladies, I think I found the picture you're looking for (and dreaming of): http://tinyurl.com/ycjuzhz

In reply to Oli Hawk:

You get some tag team in?

In reply to UKC News: Could we be so bold as to class this as a slow news day Jack….

Frankly I think you should pick up on the Otters pockets story .. I found that fascinating…

Otters have pockets …fantastic

…it all makes sense now …

Anyhoo climbing and being really incredibly good looking and all..

my single girly friends and sister (scary thought as it is) are all looking for someone "like" Mr Mux (their words) and often asking for hook ups, so maybe it could be true!

“mux” is no oil painting with bad teeth, flatulence and incredible disproportionate legs …so it has to be the climbing

In reply to Removed User:

Classy!!! But did you though?

In reply to UKC News:
Quote from MSN:
...clearly some women like their men to be daring (not to mention flexing their muscles in tight clothing!).


Does that mean they want the Lycra back?

"Football? I play polo. Surely that makes women's panties wetter than an otter's pocket?!"

Now that is just pure fookin genius

In reply to uncontrollable:
oh yesh, lycra is the DEFINITION of hawtness: http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v106/127/46/571248673/n57124867...

In reply to UKC News:

Amusing article (and nice photo :-p)! Thanks!

Also led to entertaining comments. Though if we can remove Tall Clare's before the other UKC ladies catch on and we all get our egos torn apart that would be good thanks.

In reply to SGD:

I've got to learn to cook??? Oh crap. Well, stuff that. I'm off to amend my "he's got to be a climber" thread to "he's got to be a climber who can cook". Unless he likes cheese straws. I do a mean cheese straw.

In reply to UKC News: Well, if this is true.....Ladies, I'll be at Stanage tomorrow. Just look for a small bloke crying on a VS ;]

In reply to Serpico:


I've examined this research and can unfortunately confirm your result.
jk

In reply to Ava Adore: Haha you sound like my g/f She does yoga and can't cook for toffee

In reply to SGD: Actually, I'd better point out that although she doesn't cook she does make a fantastic sandwich and until I met her I didn't know there were 2 seperate and very different definitions for 'cheese on toast'

As opposed to the clearly much better lazy men with no ambitions, drive or motivation... and who quite possibly have sore thumbs :p Shame, coz I think the schedule of a rock climbing guy might just match my own... and the climbers I know, certainly know how to have a good time!

In reply to UKC News: So men like women who cook, pole dance, dance and do yoga........ how terribly predictable

In reply to iain_cbr: Did he hell! ha ha

In reply to UKC News: I'm going to be really sad now and ignore the nice looking girly and ask where the shot's of. Is it on Skye looking down Coriusk to that crag that someone (was it Davey Mac) put a thin hard route up 2 or 3 years ago?

In reply to Tall Clare:

I think Stone Nudes calendar site also has some shots of men - it certainly did at one time but that wasn't the bit I was looking at.

In reply to UKC News:
Ah, right, so that's what was doing it. I thought it was my hat.

In reply to MRJ:

That looks suspiciously like the summit of Arfaseet?

In reply to Michael Hood: It's Sgurr a' Ghreadaidh and Sgurr a' Mhadaidh. And yup I'm pretty sure that is Skye Wall dead centre...

In reply to Michael Hood: (Dave Birkett by the way)

In reply to UKC News:

Winter climbers still out in the cold then?

In reply to SGD:

Hmmm. I do some yoga-ish stretches before climbing and can make pasta-and-pesto in a matter of minutes. I wonder if that counts...?

In reply to Ken McCulloch:

The ben, I believe.

In reply to catstclair: Us men are usually simple types so I'd have to say yes

In reply to UKC News:

I'm sure it's my stunning good looks and amazing intellect that makes women fancy me - not the ability to get up a v.diff in questionable style.

(what's standing in the middle of lake with your kit off got to do with climbing? or will that make people fancy you too?)

In reply to Oli Hawk:


In 17 years of climbing and bulling on about it in pubs, I've never been approached by a single woman. Only boring old know-it-all gits who profess to have been the world's greatest climber but have obviously never led so much as a VS and are smelly and ugly even by male climbers' standards. What i want to know is; Which pub do you go to?

In reply to EddInaBox:

Where has Brixton been? He hasn't been on to have a rant about chalk in ages. Sort of miss it.

In reply to bouldery bits:

I think he buggered off to live in France, he still posts occasionally.

In reply to EddInaBox:

Shame. I love it when people move into an area and then decide to try and impose their own ethics upon the locals.

In reply to UKC News:

The problem is that girlies who don't climb and think having a climbing boyfriend is great. Whether it be 'cos he's "different" from the usual city-boy accountant or actually is in better shape than most bods who's existence is encompassed by work and the pub. Until they realise he actually goes out and climbs on weekends and days off. i.e Being a climber means he ACTUALLY goes climbing. Crazy huh? Then you get into the QT issues. Or trying to get her into it - gritting your teeth when she complains about getting sweaty or dirty. And when you lie in bed staring into space, and they ask you what you're thinking about, you reply climbing - that really annoys them.

Nah. Not worth it, unless the girlies in question are outdoorsy types anyway.

In reply to Gasmerchant:

I was talking about this with someone last night, who said that his friend was thinking of getting into climbing specifically to find a woman - he had a perception that there were lots of 'fit climber women' around.

I thought it was an interesting contrast with your example - I don't think I'd ever heard of non-climber men being specifically attracted to climber women before.

In reply to Tall Clare:
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Once he starts climbing and actually meets some climber women I'm sure he'll change his mind.

In reply to galpinos:

guffaw!

In reply to Gasmerchant:

Pfft!!

In reply to SGD:

What's the other one?

In reply to EddInaBox: PMSL, thank you

the playing field is now level

hmmm..... well not really, because the pics just made me laugh a lot...

In reply to Blue Roses:

Here's a tip, if a fellow takes his clothes off I can assure you the very last reaction he is hoping for is to be laughed at, he'll go right off you if you do that, does a chap's ego no good at all.

In reply to EddInaBox: "Going climbing makes women fancy you" it might work for people who havent enough depth of experience to judge.

From my experience Ive been fancied when Ive been most vulnerable, when Ive been so delicate that Ive dared her to break me.

In reply to UKC News:



......dead right they do. Trouble is, when you keep going climbing they dump you........

In reply to gravitygirl:

Socks don't count if you're a bloke, it's just one of the unwritten rules.