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TR: Alive in a Bitter Sea (Katoomba Cliifs) 13-Dec-2016 At 8:53:17 AM simey

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I have always thought that one of the more fundamental aims in climbing is to start at the bottom and finish at the top. (I don't recall Hillary and Tenzing rapping down Everest to check it out, or Bryden Allen rapping down Frenchmans Cap, or Ewbank pre-inspecting Dogface).

And I have always thought that if free-climbing is your ideal than any hanging around on a rope is a move away from that ideal.

The qualities that Alive in a Bitter Sea promotes were not achieved in a way I admire.

It is a bit like Lance Armstrong taking drugs to win the Tour de France, where the ends justifies the means.

Come to think of it, I'm going to issue Warwick a lifetime ban on climbing.