How important is trust in your climbing partner when it comes to managing fear and risk, and what qualities do you look for in a partner?

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Rob Pizem · Answer

How important is trust in your partner when it comes to something risky? You already have to have the decision made before you go. So if I trust that my partner is on board with myself or our decision, there's no decision to be made when you're out there. You just commit to it because you already decided to commit and you back off and retreat because you've already decided to back off or retreat. Generally I don't make any decision in the wild. The decision is already made now we just execute it. And I think having trust in a partner that allows for that to follow that follow-through to occur and for you to live again another day to climb again another day is a good thing. It's when you're debating, you're just killing time and you're not reaching your objective and you're not getting out of a risky situation. You just need to act. Go forward or not and have that decision pre-made.

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"How important is trust in your climbing partner when it comes to managing fear and risk, and what qualities do you look for in a partner?"