Ep. 291: Rock Climbing and the Climbingzine - Luke Mehall
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It's rock climbing time with Luke Mehall. He's a long-time rock climber and publisher of the Climbingzine as well as four books. Luke and Curt talk about the adventure that is rock climbing as well as what it's like to be a publisher and author.
Climbingzine: http://climbingzine.com
Luke's Books: http://www.lukemehall.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theclimbingzine
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/climbingzine
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| 0:00.0 | the climbing is so difficult. I couldn't put any gear in, so I just kept climbing, which is a mistake. |
| 0:04.3 | It's not something experienced climber does. An experienced climber will either, you know, |
| 0:09.9 | climb back down, figure, you know, put some gear in and rest on it or something. But I just kept |
| 0:13.9 | going and I fell and I, the rope was caught behind my legs and I fell head first and I fell |
| 0:20.2 | about 40 feet and I was lingering about two feet, and I fell headfirst, and I fell about 40 feet, and I was lingering |
| 0:22.2 | about two feet above the ground. |
| 0:25.3 | And I was headed for a headfirst fall towards the ground, which could have killed me or done |
| 0:30.3 | worse. |
| 0:31.5 | So that was just a terrible experience. |
| 0:35.9 | Episode 291. |
| 0:37.9 | We're talking rock climbing and the climbing zine with Luke Mihal. |
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