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HowStuffWorks.com have just published an article on buildering and we get a fair few mentions:
I sent them some feedback:
"Thanks for the article guys. The first reference to surviving a fall really does feel like you've tried to shoe-horn a link to another article rather clumsily but overall the text is pretty damn good.
If you ever update, it would be great to get a section on the more common, contemporary style of buildering that is more frequently practised - relatively low level, harder, shorter ascents. The free solo building climbs make the headlines, whilst the bouldering-style ascents are the actual every day, lived experience."
Your thoughts please. 
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Well put, the article isn't
Well put, the article isn't that bad actually i was expecting to be cringing reading it, although as you said it does rather try and push the view of everything being about climbing skyscrapers.
Mike.
Nice! Weird coincidence, I've
Nice! Weird coincidence, I've been devouring their "Stuff You Should Know" podcast lately -- can't get enough of it. We should suggest they do a buildering one
"In the introduction to one
"In the introduction to one of his guides, Ard Arvin offers the following disclaimer: "Buildering always results in serious injury and horrible death. Buildering is illegal. You will be caught, charged with trespassing and spend years in jail." The first point is enough to scare me away from buildering -- the second is icing on the cake."
Have I just been meta-sarcasticized?
Mike: yeah, pretty much the
Mike: yeah, pretty much the same as what I thought. That said, if I were researching it all from a desk, i'd probably have a similar level of understanding.
Ard: yup, think so. meta-slap him in the face.