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		Spooky23 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'I found your dad': The mystery of a missing climb... That’s a classic ridiculous HN pedantic missing the point statistical response. I suppose on a basis of deaths per vertical meter travelled, ascending slopes is probably safer than even air travel.

pfdietz 6 months ago [–]

> I suppose on a basis of deaths per vertical meter travelled, ascending slopes is probably safer than even air travel.

No, by orders of magnitude.

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