BladeRunner
Footballguy
Why are we rock climbing again? Especially when you have a family?
It's a terrible situation but one that seemed kind of avoidable.
I think rock climbing - like a lot of things - is something you cannot comprehend if you're not driven to do it. I live in Utah and see people doing things (more dangerous/risky than rock climbing) all the time that I cannot wrap my brain around. Bridal Veil Falls freezes over every winter and people flock there for ice climbing. "Why would anyone climb something that is going to come crashing to the Earth at some point?" is what I ask myself while I watch them as I am fly fishing in the Provo River below. After a while you just stop questioning it and realize that people are wired differently.
Then there's the school of thought along the lines of "When your number is up... " ... Michael Schumacher survives a life behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car, then nearly loses his life on a ski vacation with his family. I drive to work every day on the highway, even though thousands lose their lives every year in car accidents on the highway.
Guess I'm simply saying that you don't have to have risky hobbies in order to die. Lightning strikes do occur.
Yeah, for sure. I get it.
But, IMO, there is a difference between doing something you HAVE to do (like driving to work, getting paid to drive cars) and doing something you want to do as a hobby. One you can deliberately avoid, the other not so much.
But I also understand that drive some people have to take risks - it's almost like a drug sometimes. Always challenging yourself, never settling. Just seems that if you have a family you should probably put yourself in less risky situations if you can. Now you've left a wife behind with no husband, kids with no father and possibly the main breadwinner in the family.