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When climbing teams struggle with mixed abilities and unspoken limits

My climbing team keeps talking about attempting this big technical route but we all have different skill levels and nobody wants to be the one to say they're not ready, so we're planning for something that might be beyond some of us and I'm not sure if we're being supportive or enabling each other's egos.

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The mountain demands honesty about capability, but your friendship dynamics are making it impossible to speak truthfully about who can handle what.

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