In my day people climbed a crag and tried not to fall off just by using skill and technique.
These days "rock jocks" climb a crag and tend to rely on falling off as part of the way of learning how to get up the route - a bit like playing a computer game, losing lives until you learn how to get to the next level.
I only ever put up one new route in my climbing days, but as routes had no pattern of bolts to follow the skills of route-finding and protection selection were as important as the physical skills of actually staying on the rock. I was one of the last of "The Clean Hand Gang", coming very late to chalk, just as I came late to wearing high friction boots (PA"s and "EB"s at that time).
The climbing I did normally ended with summiting a mountain or at least the crag while much of the sport climbing these days seems to be all about the gymnastics of following a line of bolts part way up a crag and abing off or even purely using indoor walls.
As with much in this life climbing seems to have veered away from "man challenging nature" to "technology (plus gymnastics) challenging a man made problem (sometimes in an outdoor setting).
I have nothing against modern climbing - but it has little to do with the climbing I did in my youth and has little attract me.
I prefer the simplicity of the older style of things when I pitted my skill, wits, big boots and tweed britches against the mighty HVS climbs of the day
when kit was simple and climbing accessible to all - no matter the depth of their pocket!
Joe Brown started climbing using a washing line for a rope and made the first nuts from plumbing fittings, used his socks over his boots to give extra friction and put up routes that still defeat manys a rock jock!
Teddy needs no Friends to go climbing - it looks like his biggest friend sorts out the pro for him!
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