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Alpine adventures bring with them new and different safety issues to rock climbing. Here, Lousie reflects on her experiences mountaineering and how she came to decide that perhaps it wasn’t her cup of tea, after all.
My brief fling with alpinism started when my friend Andrea suggested one day, “Would you like to come to New Zealand and do a mountaineering course with me?”
I was incredulous. “Are you serious? Mountains are cold, dangerous, and have too much bad weather.”
Several of my rock climbing friends had died mountaineering in their twenties:
