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Posting this for those who have wondered about my nickname..This photo was taken by a my best friend when we were in art college together at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design way back in 1977.
The building I was climbing down was the Gold Medal Flour Building on the banks of the Mississippi.
As I recall I was about eight or ten floors up and on my way down while my friend photographed me from a building across the way.
Photo used by permission
Copyright 1977 Conrad Kenneth Hipkins
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not to me..it was the best part of that day
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I can imagine, it looks real cool !
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my younger days when I feared nothing.
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Man, You gots some balls!
I did small building climbing last year (3 stories tops).
I climbed are 2, 3 floor elementary schools.
A Intermediate school.
Then the highschool. I fell 15 feet off the highschool when I was climbing... (luckily I wasn't at the top!)
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I had a few falls early on.. fell 30 feet out of the top of an elm tree trying to retrieve a kite when I was seven.. hospital for at least a couple of weeks..
bruised vertabrae..
at age twelve I fell seventy -five feet ..into an open pit iron mine in Virginia Minnesota..impacting three ledges before coming to a stop on the third ledge which held me fast or I would have had another 200 feet to go. hospital about two weeks broken fingers and fractured ribs and cracked skull.
fell three floors off of an apartment building when I was about 28..slammed into the grass and got the wind knocked out of me..
several other falls and close calls till I finally had to quit at about age 45..too many injuries.
Now 58..and If I could I'd still be climbing.
Be careful up there
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WOW MAN! That's crazy doode!
Always try to be!
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This is awesome, I am a climber also, but it was mountains before I fell too many times skiing...I love this shot though, very cool
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thanks..the shot was taken by my college best friend while my college sweet heart looked on thinking it was going to be the last thing she would see me do.
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it did to my girlfriend too.
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OMG, so amazing you did this for fun! 
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everyone has fears about one thing or another .. some folks like me are deathly afraid of needles .. but heights have never scared me in any way.
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That's true, but a picture of someone getting a shot isn't nearly as scary!
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it is to me.. I hate shots.
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This photo just rocks. Awesome of you to have had this experience.
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in my younger days that is what I did every day for excercise I climbed grain elevators bridges lots of buildings with ornamental brick freeway sound barriers construction cranes electrical towers every sort of tree I could. I just plain love to climb.. and while I can not any more I had over thirty years of doing it every day almost without a break..my friends and family all feared an early demise. and or psychological incarceration(straight jacket meds la de dea)
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it's just me in 1977. but thanks.
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AHHH! That is so cool!!!!! I love the mustache you're rocking by the way!!
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Haha! You were looking fly! And it totally belongs in Cuteness! Or more like, AH! I can't believe you did that that is so awesome!!!!!!!!! Is that a better folder????
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My friends at the time would've said that the folder should be"that guy is friggin insane"
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