He was making it look so easy too! I noticed the quickdraw and wondered if if was one of those ones that stays open until you weight it, and then... that had to hurt!
Hey, shit happens. But can just about begin to imagine how gutted he was. It so looked in the bag, until... Amazing climbing though. Even tiring, the precision of his movements... something else. To see climbing like this - beyond our wildest dreams. Mick
Appears to me that whilst Steve is absolutely furious at the universe when it looks like pure bad luck, he actually looks like he gets LESS angry when he realises there might be somebody to blame in some way. Would have been easy to lash out more after discovering a target. If I'm not imagining that, it's a real credit to him.
Is it a special quickdraw or something? You don't normally close a quickdraw, well not the ones I use. Unless it is a bit manky. Though I must admit to venting my ire at times on my belayers of the past. Not now though, these days I am proper zen. honest.
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