and people think crack climbing is easy
Wednesday 27 September 2006 | I like a cookie
People think that because people like Dan Osman make it look easy. People are stupid. (Inadvertently courtesy of Jason Kottke.)
Check out his casual chalk-dust flinging dynos. Check out the way he flips off the wall many hundreds of feet off the ground. Watch how he steps off tiny knobs and flows through laybacks that would have lesser climbers such as your not-even-in-the-same-universe quailing narrator burning out there for half-an-hour, trembly-thighed and bleating for beta.
Last week, scrambling uphill after the cactus-seeking Brujo, tendon-ruined forearms pumpy and fingers numb, remembering wistful the harness and belay plate languishing in the cupboard, considering wryly that you can only climb one kind of mountain in your life and you don’t even get to pick it yourself. Dan Osman is dead but first, he motherfucking climbed it.
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