Hot Topic: Noon-hour Seminar
Party of One

Saturday, November 07, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Free
Max Bell Auditorium

The decision to leave the rope at home is one of the most hotly debated practices in climbing. In the same breath, free soloing is labeled as both the purest version of the game and the most pathologically irresponsible. The soloists themselves get called everything from the true heroes of climbing to stunters and madmen. This provocative panel will ask climbers and filmmakers with a deep connection to the dangerous game the big question: Why? Why take such risks? Why solo this climb and not that one? And why have some of the world’s best climbers never untied from the rope?

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