Well said! 👏

Second this!

Sure but that anxiety does not serve you. So even if it is a special route, it is better to act as if it is not, to an extent. No it was soaking and I went home and went on my board.

For sure. I'm still working on the "be inspired enough to commit" vs "be relaxed enough about the outcome"....after 20 years....

My leg caught in the rope and landed on my back, but thanks to my quick belayer it was just on the rope stretch so I was fine. I have done all types of climbing for my whole adult life. BTW, I noticed that you left a comment on my Game Changers video recently. I went to reply, but couldn't find it. Did you delete it?

@@climbermacleod No, I did not delete any of my comments in that thread. If you sort the comments by new, you can see my comment about the game changers debate with Joe Rogan if that is the comment you are talking about. I left other comments, for example in the thread from Simon Reichel and Susan Jacobson. You can all find them if you sort the comments by new. (they are not far down the thread.) I have to say I learned a lot about veganism/health/environment/livestock the last days, so thank you for that and you also changed my perspective slightly. I realized that a vegan world is not really possible (yet) if we are talking about the sustainability of food security in a growing/climate change world, since not all livestock land is arable. I still don't agree with your anti-vegansim/dismissal of it as "the worst diet" because you CAN be healthy with a well planned plant based diet (in this case vegan diet). I mean not every animal product user is healthy just because they eat animal products and they can also have deficiencies if they don't balance their diet. (western diet/no sport/no sun/etc.) Sure, it's a bit harder with a vegan diet to stay healthy and there is a lot of bad information out there but come on, in richer countries it's not a problem if you supplement some things and diet well, so maybe you can open your heart a bit more for your vegan fans out there. (I went vegan as a protest against the cruel practices in factory farming.) Thanks for your answer btw, means a lot! LEGEND! edit: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZx3mrl52dKdlIk.html (Video - Special Report on Climate Change and Land) & kzfaq.info/get/bejne/asyCZNeC25axioU.html (Video - Special Report on the Ocean and Cryopshere in a Changing Climate) www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/11/20/1910935116 [Assessing the sustainability of post-Green Revolution cereals in India]

@@chillpurr275 Ok I'll have a search. Well I hope we can fight on the same side with respect to cruel farming practice. In my mind, the ultimate in animal cruelty is tilling and ploughing. It kills almost everything. The irony regarding opening my heart to vegans is that it is precisely because I have concern that I have felt its necessary to speak up on the issue. I have seen not only the scientific data but personally witnessed so many vegans slowly destroy their physical and mental health on the diet. There are exceptions, sure. But its the general idea that meat is bad for you that I object to being promoted since there is no evidence to support it and it clearly ends up in considerable harm for so many. The paper on the Indian food supply is interesting as a nice example of how the food industry and policy makers tie themselves in knots to avoid animal foods. Just improving the veterinary care to the level of the USA (where livestock contribute 3.9% of GHGs) would slash the GHGs in livestock farming in India. Mixing up the grain supply might provide more Iron. But it is not heme iron and it will not go far in solving the horrendous malnutrition in the Indian population. Moreover, many scientists attribute the Haber-Bosch process of using fossil fuels to fertilise mass grain production to have played a major role in causing population explosion in the first place. Trying to solve the downstream consequences by applying more of the cause is not a good strategy.

Its a good question with a few parts to the answer. First, My lifetime goal was to climb 8c. I thought I would maybe never manage it but did in my mid twenties. So I am already well past my super high goals. With that said, of course I never would just settle for any one level and always looking to improve. But for such high goals its important to consider your strengths and weaknesses. I've always been a very heavy climber and so struggle with endurance routes. So I thought Font 8C would be a comparable and perhaps more realistic goal than 9a+. And so I focused a bit more on boulders until I climbed 8C. But finally, yes we have a tiny amount of sport climbing compared to many other countries. There are only two 9as in Scotland (I have done both) and no 9a+ and so its hard to find any never mind one that suits you. Nevertheless. I'm sure one day I will have this as my goal.

@@climbermacleod Well, congrats on over-achieving then, long may it continue. A few things: 1) there's a line of thinking saying people get better at endurance as they age (in running for instance). If it is true (I have neither data nor idea), could it also apply to climbing? 2) then what about 8C+? 3) And last, surely there must be a few short 9a+, or even 9b? 4) last last, how about opening a nice little 9a+ or b for yourself in the glens?