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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The director really blew the acceptance speech at the Academy Awards. Barely acknowledged the actual climber, and was insufferable.[/quote]

I’m guessing you mean Jimmy Chin? I followed him for a few years then couldn’t handle him anymore. I’ve actually avoided this movie because of him. [/quote]

He seems to think that having a brief wrestle with his conscience over whether he would bear some responsibility for Alex’s death is enough to absolve him of culpability.

How is he, and others who encouraged this effort, fundamentally different from someone who yells “jump!” at a suicidal person standing on a ledge? Does the fact that there is a financial and notoriety payoff rather than a simple sick thrill make it socially acceptable?[/quote]

Hmm, I see this very different than a suicudal person ready to jump from a ledge[/quote]

If you liked the documentary & are wondering about the ethical Q of how one could encourage or stand by while he did this, you should read The Impossible Climb by Mark Synnott. Explores this territory. Chin, Synnott, Honnold, and many others involved have been part of the climbing community together (some of them for decades, Honnold's younger so for less time, but they all share a similar if not identical ethos). Synnott wrestles with this question quite a bit in his book -- what motivates Alex to take these risks; whether they should try to stop him; and situates the climb within a historical context of climbing in the US. Pretty interesting read, and I am not even a rock climber.[/quote]

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