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disobey_gravity2019-10-06 07:21 pm
rydra_wong) wrote in disobey_gravity2019-10-06 07:21 pm
Things you just can't say to climbers
Rock and Ice: Border-Wall Climbing Competition to Take Place at Red River Gorge, October 11-12
Sample:
Many in the climbing community were amused a couple weeks ago when our POTUS held a press conference at a section of his latest border wall design—a series of parallel square steel posts with a 5-foot-high plate at the top. “This wall can’t be climbed,” he stated. Newsweek reported that the President boasted about how “the federal government tested the structure by having 20 skilled mountain climbers attempt to climb it,” and no one could.
... so yeah, the climbing community has reacted exactly the way you'd expect (the comp is being held on a replica section of wall, for obvious reasons).
Sample:
Many in the climbing community were amused a couple weeks ago when our POTUS held a press conference at a section of his latest border wall design—a series of parallel square steel posts with a 5-foot-high plate at the top. “This wall can’t be climbed,” he stated. Newsweek reported that the President boasted about how “the federal government tested the structure by having 20 skilled mountain climbers attempt to climb it,” and no one could.
... so yeah, the climbing community has reacted exactly the way you'd expect (the comp is being held on a replica section of wall, for obvious reasons).
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