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Friday Fun Thread for October 13, 2023

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I'm not sure if you climb much, but it is absolutely not true that you can get to the same view with an easier way. We call these technical summits. Off the top of my head Cerro Torre is famous, near me is Slesse Mountain in British Columbia, in the Canadian Rockies there's Mt Louis, Mt Birdwood, Mt Alberta. etc.

That was phrased poorly. I was thinking more in terms of rock climbing as guys going out to climb a 5.12 route that's sorta on a random cliff, which they mostly drive to or take an easy hike to, which they are seeking out more or less purely because of the technical difficulty of the climbing. In my mind most technical summits are by definition Alpinism, because you had to first journey to the rock face before reaching the climb, with the climb forming just part of a larger journey to the top of the mountain.