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Originally Posted by treevet  I was free climbing a tree when I was younger (taking up my climbing line to tie in) on a hot humid day. I slipped on lichens (a non parasitic fungae-algae and my feet went right up over my head. I fell 50 feet (I measured it) but half way down I hit a limb on my back. I climbed the rest of the day to show the groundy what tough is but rolling over in bed I punctured a lung with one of the three broken ribs I had. Two weeks of suffering broken ribs is enough memory to last a lifetime. You can t laugh or cough or even sleep very much. You could ask Evil Kneivel what a lifetime of pain is like but he is dead. You will have to learn the hardway, Newguy. |
i've already fallen out of 2 trees.one was a pecan that I was rec climbing.I had limbs spaced out perfectly and I had just pulled my self up to a 4" diameter limb on one of the leaders.before I could clip in my flipline It broke and I fell 30' and landed flat as a pancake on top of my head.Believe it or not it happened and I walked away without much more than 2 broken fingers and one hell of a headache.The second time was only 15' but it happened while I was restting my climbing line and an unexpected wind came through.I think i learned the hardway.