[pkrotich]

Caves scare the hell out of me - I get anxiety just thinking about it!

Come to think of it - I don’t think I have any hobby that borders on scary to anyone ( flying somehow calms me and snaps me to reality tho).

Perhaps I’m just an anxious person, but caving is a nope for me!

[sph]

Free climbing? Though at gun point I'd rather climb without ropes than go caving or cave diving.

[mauvehaus]

FYI: Free climbing is the opposite of aid climbing. I.e you progress upwards only by weighting the rock as opposed to making progress by weighting your gear.

Climbing without a partner is soloing. Technically there's aid soloing, which is sort of a weird discipline wherein you're aid climbing without a partner protected by a rope, which is why the kind of climbing Alex Honnold is famous for is called free soloing.

Confusingly, there's also rope soloing, which is free climbing with a rope for protection. He did a bunch of rope soloing to practice the pitches he did free solo in the movie of the same name.

[sph]

Yeah, I was thinking of Honnold, so I meant free soloing is preferable to caving.