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The Aid Climbing Rant
Ok, I’ve been wanting to put this up for awhile, but finally just got around to getting it on YouTube. It originally came from Matt Lloyd’s site, relentlessclimbing.com, but the video was slow to load. So I took it and modified it, and now the whole world can enjoy this priceless tidbit of wisdom.
Chris Kalous gives it to us straight about hard aid climbing. Is it really that hard? scary? death-defying? Watch and find out.
And in case you are wondering, Kalous has the credentials to back this up, especially when it comes to hard aid in the desert. I mean, who falls on a RURP in the Fishers?
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