Bob,
What do you mean? You can't rent skills, too?
People ignorant on how this mountaineering thingy works climb up and glissade down the chute without incident...99% of the time. The 1% that crashes and burns does so in a spectacular matter. This makes their local paper...with a headline that says something...XX year old name a town dies on Mt. Whitney.
To all those contemplating going up and glissading down the chute with their rented aluminum clampons and ice pick or with their own Microspikes and trekking poles, run a Google search on death on Mt. Whitney or Newport Beach man dies, wife injured on Mt. Whitney.
