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Stephenlearner Posted 13 years ago
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Blew him out 10 feet
Hi,
Can you tell me what the phrase in bold mean? Does it mean he was in point A, and after the wind, he lowered to a point by 10 feet?
Although he is a paraplegic, Mark Wellman climbed El Capitan, the world’s largest monolith. It took him seven days and four hours
to climb the 3000 feet, six inches at a time. Sometimes strong winds blew him out 10 feet from the face of the cliff. Then he climbed up the face of Half Dome, also in Yosemite National Park. It took almost two weeks to climb the 2200 feet.
Thank you very much!
Can you tell me what the phrase in bold mean? Does it mean he was in point A, and after the wind, he lowered to a point by 10 feet?
Although he is a paraplegic, Mark Wellman climbed El Capitan, the world’s largest monolith. It took him seven days and four hours
to climb the 3000 feet, six inches at a time. Sometimes strong winds blew him out 10 feet from the face of the cliff. Then he climbed up the face of Half Dome, also in Yosemite National Park. It took almost two weeks to climb the 2200 feet.
Thank you very much!
Top answer
I'm not familiar with mountain-climbing technique, but I'm guessing this means climbers are always tethered to the cliff by a line, as a basic safety measure. Thus, even if a climber loses his grip and falls, he won't fall to the ground, because he has a line always attached to the cliff. So he'll end up dangling frighteningly from a line, but he'll be safe, and he can then haul himself back up with the line.
- I'm not familiar with mountain-climbing technique, but I'm guessing this means climbers are always tethered to the cliff by a line, as a basic safety measure.
- Thus, even if a climber loses his grip and falls, he won't fall to the ground, because he has a line always attached to the cliff.
- So he'll end up dangling frighteningly from a line, but he'll be safe, and he can then haul himself back up with the line.
- One of the reasons for falling is strong winds simply blowing you away from the cliff, and then you'll end up dangling from your safety line and being tossed about by the wind, which could easily blow you 10 ft.
- away from the face of the cliff.
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I'm not familiar with mountain-climbing technique, but I'm guessing this means climbers are always tethered to the cliff by a line, as a basic safety measure. Thus, even if a climber loses his grip and falls, he won't fall to the ground, because he has a line always attached to the cliff. So he'll end up dangling frighteningly from a line, but he'll be safe, and he can then haul himself back up
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