well-temperedforum.groupee.net    The Well-Tempered Forum  Hop To Forum Categories  Off Key    The free soloist who fell to earth

Moderators: QuirtEvans, pianojuggler, wtg
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
The free soloist who fell to earth
 Login/Join
 
Has Achieved Nirvana
Picture of wtg
posted
quote:
Austin Howell soloed harder and more often than almost anyone else in the country, documenting his exploits on Instagram and a podcast. But behind the scenes his mental health was faltering.


https://www.outsideonline.com/...well-fallen-soloist/


--------------------------------
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb

Bazootiehead-in-training



 
Posts: 38013 | Location: Somewhere in the middle | Registered: 19 January 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Beatification Candidate
Picture of big al
posted Hide Post
So are we more sympathetic to this death than ones that occurred in a deep-diving submersible?

Big Al


--------------------------------
Money seems to buy the most happiness when you give it away.

Why does everything have to be so complicated, all in the name of convenience. -ShiroKuro

A lifetime of experience will change a person. If it doesn't, then you're already dead inside. -MarkJ

 
Posts: 7427 | Location: Western PA | Registered: 20 April 2005Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Minor Deity
Picture of Mikhailoh
posted Hide Post
Good read. My brother was a climber, although he did not do much soloing. He can't do it anymore as he's lost strength in his left hand. I always worried about him getting overconfident.


--------------------------------
"A mob is a place where people go to get away from their conscience" Atticus Finch

 
Posts: 13585 | Registered: 20 April 2005Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Has Achieved Nirvana
Picture of CHAS
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by big al:
So are we more sympathetic to this death than ones that occurred in a deep-diving submersible?

Big Al


I am more sympathetic to climbers. I know some climbers. I knew one that died on Everest.


--------------------------------
Several people have eaten my cooking and survived.

 
Posts: 25736 | Location: Still living at 9000 feet in the High Rockies of Colorado | Registered: 20 April 2005Reply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  
 

    well-temperedforum.groupee.net    The Well-Tempered Forum  Hop To Forum Categories  Off Key    The free soloist who fell to earth