Weekend Whipper: Terminal Pump = Big Whip!
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This climber is at the anchor of a pumpy sport route in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. But there is one BIG problem … he’s too pumped to clip the chains.
Despite his friend assuring him that he’s got it and that it will all work out, the climber isn’t so sure. In a last ditch effort to hang on, he grabs
the taunting chains, but quickly realizes he has no strength left. Bombs away!