Climber Awarded Carnegie Medal After Free Soloing a Cliff to Rescue a Crashed Hang Glider Pilot
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Free soloing has been called many things: foolhardy, deadly, a life wish, a misnomer, an art form, a dangerous game. But for all its history of taking lives, it’s rarely been the cause of saving one. In a thoughtful essay about free soloing published in January, longtime Colorado climber Jim Erickson urged free soloists to channel their courage toward search and rescue operations. “Every single free solo climber possesses the freedom to choose their danger,” he wrote. “The true heroes in life se
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