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Climbing Purity Test

This climbing purity test was written using armory.com's purity test generator and reformatted to match the rest of the site. I hope you like it.

Check all boxes for which your answer is "yes".
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  1. Do you think climbing is cool?
  2. Do you know any climbers?
  3. Are most of your friends climbers?
  4. All of them?
  5. Are you in a climbing club?
  6. More than one?
  7. Are you on the committee?
  8. President?
  9. Is it the Alpine Club?
  10. Have you ever been to a climbers' social event?
  11. Been sick at one?
  12. Organised one?
  13. Have you ever been climbing?
  14. Have you ever lead a climb?
  15. Ten?
  16. A hundred?
  17. A thousand?
  18. Have you ever climbed on ice?
  19. Have you ever been bouldering?
  20. Have you climbed on more than five types of rock?
  21. Can you name them?
  22. Have you been above 1000m?
  23. Above 4000m?
  24. Above 8000m?
  25. Have you organised a climbing expedition abroad?
  26. Have you climbed a new route?
  27. More than one?
  28. Did it get into a guidebook?
  29. Have you written a guidebook?
  30. Have you written other types of climbing articles?
  31. Do you own a harness?
  32. Rock shoes?
  33. Crampons?
  34. More than one pair?
  35. Have you ever worn leggings while climbing?
  36. Were they fluorescent?
  37. Do you have a chalk bag?
  38. A bouldering mat?
  39. A rope?
  40. More than one rope?
  41. Do you own any climbing gear that isn't made any more?
  42. Do you still use it?
  43. Can you spot the odd one out: Outside, Outdoors, Snow and Rock, Rock and Run?
  44. Can you use a grading system?
  45. Accurately?
  46. More than one?
  47. Can you convert between the grading systems in your head?
  48. When someone talks about E numbers, are they talking about climbing?
  49. Have you ever trained for climbing?
  50. (Not counting the pub?)
  51. Can you tie a figure of eight?
  52. A bowline?
  53. An Alpine butterfly?
  54. A prusik knot?
  55. More than one of the above with your eyes closed?
  56. Have you ever fallen?
  57. Decked out?
  58. Had gear rip on you?
  59. Had to hold a fall?
  60. Done so successfully?
  61. Have you ever dropped a belay device irretrievably?
  62. If so, did you cope okay without it?
  63. Do you know your local crag?
  64. Have you climbed it out?
  65. Have you ever entered a climbing competition?
  66. Were you placed?
  67. Did you win?
  68. Can you ski?
  69. Uphill?
  70. Do you know who Ben, Jerry and Johnny are?
  71. Do you know who Zippy is?
  72. Do you know who first climbed Everest?
  73. ... who first climbed all the 8000m peaks?
  74. Have you ever climbed a virgin peak?
  75. ... and named it?
  76. Have you ever climbed a Puttrell route?
  77. A Joe Brown route?
  78. A Johnny Dawes route?
  79. Can you jam?
  80. Without bleeding?
  81. Can you remember the grades of ten climbs without a guidebook?
  82. Can you recite their descriptions?
  83. Can you recite the description of Indian Face?
  84. Have you taken photographs of climbing?
  85. Other than of you or your climbing partner?
  86. Do you have a ticklist?
  87. Do you know what the Grit List is?
  88. Do you have a copy?
  89. Have you ticked any of the routes?
  90. Do you read rocktalk?
  91. uk.rec.climbing?
  92. Have you climbed a Munro?
  93. Ten?
  94. All of them?
  95. Have you been on an expedition lasting longer than 2 days?
  96. Longer than a week?
  97. Longer than a month?
  98. Do you live in Sheffield?
  99. Do you want to?
  100. Would proximity to crags be an important factor in your choice of where to live?
  101. In your choice of job?
  102. Would you avoid going out with a non-climber?
  103. Even if they were fit?
  104. Do you own any maps?
  105. Of climbing areas?
  106. In more than one country?
  107. Have you ever displayed them on your wall?
  108. Have you ever talked about climbing in your sleep?
  109. Have you ever dreamed about climbing?
  110. Have you ever been benighted?
  111. Deliberately?
  112. On the gritstone?
  113. Can you quote from Hard Grit?
  114. Can you do the accents?
  115. Do you own any climbing videos?
  116. Do you watch Ray Mears?
  117. Could you survive in the wild for a week?
  118. Have you ever injured yourself climbing?
  119. Do you know anyone who's died climbing?
  120. Did you see it happen?
  121. Do you have an SPA?
  122. An ML?
  123. Are you a Mountain Guide?
  124. Do you have a first-aid qualification?
  125. Do you know how to make a gas stove work at low temperatures?
  126. Have you ever been to a climbing wall?
  127. Would you rather have been doing 'proper' climbing?
  128. Have you ever spent over an hour in an outdoor shop?
  129. Ever worked for one?
  130. Have you ever been to Pete's Eats?
  131. Do you own any books about climbing?
  132. Other than guidebooks?
  133. Published before 1950?
  134. Do you have more pictures of mountains than of your boy or girlfriend?
  135. Do you consider the climb more important than the summit?
  136. Have you ever backed off a route?
  137. Have you ever bathed in a mountain pool?
  138. Through necessity?
  139. Have you ever climbed through pain?
  140. Do you know what an etrier is?
  141. Are you sponsored?
  142. Have you been to a BMC committee meeting?
  143. Did they alter their policy as a result?
  144. Are you in awe of Don Whillans?
  145. Have you climbed in the rain?
  146. Did you enjoy it?
  147. Really?
  148. Have you collected rocks from climbing venues?
  149. Have you skipped lectures to go climbing?
  150. Have you lied to try to improve your score in this test?

Good going!