Jerome Stiller, 50, and his friend were climbing on Eldorado Canyon's Redgarden Wall (Colorado, USA) and fell, taking a 100ft whipper and pulling some gear. He suffered a head injury, a fractured bone near his right eye, multiple cuts and a broken right tibia.
In reply to Stalky:
I like the human interest stories here. It's like a newspaper... some people only read the politics and major world events, others go for the stuff on page 4 about art therapy for stressed people and sharks reproducing without having sex.
Why can't we have more stories about climbers reproducing without sex? Anecdotally there certainly seem to be more of them about, and most are far to hideously ugly to ever attract a mate, so it's the only rational explanation.
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