FREE VERTICAL

 

No climbing gear.

Only flexibility, agility, logic, and creativity.

Only you and hard, unforgiving, merciless rock.

Overhangs and chimneys sing with abandon.

Crevices and endless seams invite risk.

Walls disappear into sky.

Routes with unseen outcomes.

Anticipate consequences of each route choice.

Use awareness, intuition, rapid focused judgement.

Indecision may be fatal.

Choice may be fatal.

Gravity awaits.

 

—Will Walsh