{"id":6316,"date":"2010-11-04T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T05:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=6316"},"modified":"2018-09-23T00:16:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T19:16:43","slug":"natural-born-climbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/natural-born-climbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural-born climbers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ibex_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6317\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ibex_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ibex_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6318\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ibex_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ibex_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6319\" title=\"Ibex_3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ibex_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>The mountains of <span style=\"color: #999999;\"><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piedmont\" target=\"_blank\">Piemonte<\/a><\/span>, Italy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe ibex of Northern Italy don\u2019t need to worry about equipment malfunctions, difficult-to-obtain life insurance, or their peers calling them foolhardy. They just do what they do, without ropes or inhibitions\u2026\u201d<\/em> (from a link in today\u2019s <em>Alpine Club of Canada<\/em> e-letter).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve long marveled at the genetically hard-wired abilities of sheep and goats when it comes to rock climbing (and I\u2019ve posted on this before, e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1208\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1014\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). Don\u2019t underestimate the sure-footedness, balance, and sheer gumption of the mystical Ibex either (<em>stambecco<\/em> in Italian, <em>Steinbock<\/em> in German). These pictures speak for themselves (yes, the tiny specs in the lower photo <em>are<\/em> what you think)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mountains of Piemonte, Italy \u201cThe ibex of Northern Italy don\u2019t need to worry about equipment malfunctions, difficult-to-obtain life insurance, or their peers calling them foolhardy. They just do what they do, without ropes or inhibitions\u2026\u201d (from a link in today\u2019s Alpine Club of Canada e-letter). I\u2019ve long marveled at the genetically hard-wired abilities of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7,17,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15874,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions\/15874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}