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A climber sandwiched between giant sandstone rocks some almost 1,000ft above the ground is shown in the dramatic picture. 33 year old Swiss climber Rahel Schelb scaled the the epic de*@th-defying sandstone walls of the Li Ming region, in Yunnan Province, China. She has climbed around 60 route in over 25 years. The routes range from crevices 65ft-100ft high to cracks that stretched all the way from the bottom to the top of the rock face.
Rahel said, ‘For single pitch routes we normally had between 30 and 60 minutes. If the crack led all the way up until the top, it was a day project. That means that we started at the bottom of the wall in the morning and reached the top at some point in the afternoon. And of course to get back to the ground would take us a few hours too. I guess with every route we climbed there we learned a new way of climbing.
Once we started a climb the only way was to get to the top which forced us to use all our imagination and creativity to find a way to overcome the difficulties. Widening cracks are rather challenging climbs and therefore only a few climbers like them. Most climbers prefer parallel cracks. I like all kinds of cracks – therefore I would go for a widening crack from time to time too. Crack climbing demands a certain amount of pain resistance. If you don’t want to sacrifice a little of your skin or a pair of pants, you shouldn’t start crack climbing.
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