What is your greatest fear?
Buried alive/locked-in syndrome. It’s knowing there’s nothing you can do to change your situation and it will get worse. I was climbing once and my belayer was pulling hard on my rope. Normally this is great. It gives you a boost and you feel really secure. Lead climbing changes things and it’s a balance between the climber and belayer. I was above my last clip and I was struggling and then also being pulled down. I knew the fall was going to happen. It wouldn’t be a soft catch where the stretch of the rope cradles you. It was going to hurt and I had to let go. That’s 1/9230482309th of what being buried alive is and I didn’t even handle that well.
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