You don’t need a graduate degree to rock climb, but it doesn’t hurt.
SKIP GARIBALDI IS a mathematics professor from Emory University who knows how to make his subject seriously interesting.
In this video, Professor Garibaldi explains fall factors, a mathematical concept critical to staying safe in rock climbing, illustrating it with stories of some of the gear-blowing whippers he’s taken while climbing El Capitan. Also included are a rundown of the so-called “ape index,” and one of the only indoor simul-climbing demos I’ve ever seen.
Adam Roy
Chicago native Adam Roy is the former-Editor of Matador Sports and an aspiring renaissance man to boot. For more of Adam's writing, check out his blog at Ill-Advised Adventures.
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