This should be a reminder to the suburban family units that go on strenuous or even straight up dangerous hikes, carefree and letting their children and animals roam everywhere.
I’ve seen tourists kids just casually fooling around on a ridge hike with a sheer 500+ foot drop on either side of a like meter wide ridge with no barriers. Dogs gladly running into the brush which leads to said 500 foot drop.
This hiker chose to free solo an almost vertical wall and unfortunately paid the price. Mountains are dangerous. People regularly climb and fall off Morro rock and that’s literally just a rock, not even a mountain.
This pisses me off. The amount of hubris is appalling. They told you weather was on its way but it didn't look like it so you went anyways? So you trust your eyes that can only see a fraction of the sky more than weather satellites? Fuck off. Poor girl. Reared by a moron.
So many warning signs he just ignores. Worst was when she directly told him her shoes were too slippery.
As an avid hiker who can’t wait to introduce my kids to more difficult hikes when they grow up, I’ll always remember this story before deciding to ignore any warnings.
I see people climbing these and that ladder thing in the sky across two rocks and it just does not compute in my brain. I have zero interest in even being near those items. People who do have a literal death wish.
Why don’t people clip in? I get its like 5.4 aid climbing but walking and swapping your 2 anchors adds a trivial amount of time in order to not die IMO.
Man that’s sad as fuck. Can’t imagine that happening right in front of me. And I’m sure it’s just the way the article is written but does the dad come of kind of… chill… when talking about the whole thing? Seems like a character just telling a story in a movie.