How to climb for 40 days and 40 nights

For whatever reason, this dusty two-year-old video of yours truly has recently gone (weakly) viral; about 80,000 people have now seen me climbing on the treadwall at Boulderz.


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According to YouTube’s analytics, this has resulted in over 60 thousand estimated viewing minutes—roughly 40 days’ worth of climbing. No wonder I feel tired.

The traffic seems to have mostly originated from this post on the Cheezburger network:

as well as the videos page on MSN (where another 10,000 views have accumulated:

Sadly, I’m not a regular at Boulderz—a great gym incidentally—so my endurance hasn’t gotten any better. Ha. At least it’s not an embarrassing moment.

Here’s my original post about this video: Humiliation Machine at Boulderz

While we’re on the topic I might as well link to two other moments of unintentional 'fame' (yes I suffer from self-absorption):

• Wait a second, that’s ME!!
• Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Hey that's me!

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