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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMountain climbers scale replica of Trump's border wall in under one minute: report
Several mountain climbers have reportedly scaled a wooden replica of President Trump's steel border wall that was built to disprove Trump's claims that a portion of the wall is "impossible to climb."
Rick Weber a 75-year-old retired engineer, and active rock climber built a replica of an 18-foot tall section of border wall in Kentucky earlier this month, inviting mountain climbers to compete to see who could climb it the fastest.
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As of Friday, Oct. 11, The Courier-Journal reports that numerous people have already scaled the replica wall, including an 8-year-old girl, even though Weber's competition isn't until this weekend.
According to the Courier-Journal, 30-year-old Peter Favaloro of Boston reached the top of the wall in about a minute. The novice climber told the publication he traveled to climb the wall after seeing news coverage about it.
Another climber, 29-year-old Erik Kloeker, made it over the wall in approximately 30 seconds during a demonstration for reporters. He later climbed the wall a second time while also juggling.
Video of the juggling climber and more here:
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Mountain climbers scale replica of Trump's border wall in under one minute: report (Original Post)
Ramsey Barner
Oct 2019
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TheRealNorth
(9,435 posts)1. Lol
Chakaconcarne
(2,387 posts)2. migrants are making a sport of it also...
done in about the same amount of time.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)3. An important purpose of the wall is to take money from legit projects
and give it to his crony supporters.
Mendocino
(7,431 posts)4. I have only the basic
mountain and rock skills, but a chimney climb up a straight and unencumbered surface is relatively easy.
Don't know about moats, gators and snakes, and barb wire though...
imanamerican63
(13,669 posts)5. But could they.........
fry an egg on it? Could they see through it?