by Sgurr » Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:48 pm
Maybe have a word with your partner? Amenable to compromising, or just insisting that you do what he does? I am lucky in that my partner realised I had a serious issue with exposure very early on when he looked round and found me crawling up a 1 in 10 grassy slope. Luckily it seemed to have abated over the years, partly as a result of very gradual increase in difficulty, and partly as a result of becoming a granny at which my system seemed to say to me "right, you have safely passed on your genes, now you can go and fling yourself over a cliff if you want." (Most of the portfolio under my name has been acquired since then). Nonetheless, although Buchaille was OK, I did have a slight wobbly on Heather Terrace. A friend who used to cliff climb with no worries at all suddenly became unable to when her kids were born, and although many women carry on through the early childhood of their kids, I worry that there isn't a built in brake , hard to overcome. The other thing I would suggest is that YOU research the routes that are being suggested so you don't find yourself in negotiation on the morning of a climb, or freezing half way into it. Forewarned is fore-armed. Good luck.
Can't help you with the pace. Mine improved when I discovered I was asthmatic, and partner's got worse when we went to Everest Base Camp and he got pneumonia after altitude sickness. Since he broke a hip I am about 4 times as fast, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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