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Learn by mistakes of others – and be amazed! However, it is important to remember that you have to weigh up the danger of risking something in life against the danger of risking nothing.
Or as Edward Whymper said: “Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime.”

When thousands of cubic meters of water stand still – daggers are always sensitive to climb:

Helicopter crash at Großglockner without any injuries, but with lots of luck. The landing place has a 300 m vertical drop behind that exposed spot:

Quelle: YouTube, Peter Trenkwalder

Close – even closer – and then there was the guardian angel:

Source: YouTube, irishpatrick6

Zwieselbacher Rosskogel done – with 30.821 m highest mountain of Stubaier Alps:

The other day at the Alpspitze – some could even laugh:

A pile of metal to stabilise the spine and a year’s break from climbing: that’s all it takes to cure a belay mistake (here: loss of control by the belayer when lowering off with a tangled rope):

Who overtakes whom? Not everybody understands the meaning of a rope team on the glacier:

All right! The handling of half ropes has to be learned:

Rappel anchor at Wadi Rum/Jordan – still enough space for new slings:

Unwanted two-way traffic – mountaineers in single file on their ego trip through the Lhotse Face on the way to the summit of Everest:

Source: Ralf Dujmovits

Good conditions at the Weismies? A matter of the viewpoint:

Blood smeared T-shirt after an outbreak of a rappel anchor followed by a ground fall into a thorn hedge. Rappelling at the limit was never a good idea:

A lot of time at the belay in arctic Norway:

The boundaries burst – not only in this respect – in the Danube Valley:

Great – finally no more nails cutting:

Source: The Alpinist