Weekend Whipper: Never Mind the Bollocks
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Leaping up to touch the white thing seemed like a great idea to this climber, but what he didn’t realize was that his belayer had slack in the system.
Yet after jumping from the top of the indoor, roof-feature to tag the white, metal pole on the ceiling, he accelerates quickly toward the ground. To
make matters worse, the awkward catch from his top-rope swings him upside-down, and to borrow a line from the Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks!