Ibex: Fear No Gravity!
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“Where a goat can go, a man can go. And where a man can go, he can drag a gun.”
~ Maj. Gen. William Phillips during the Siege of Fort Ticonderoga
Um, no.
This makes me wonder if Looney Toons were right all along and as long as you don’t look down, you’ll be ok.
Jay, the only question I have is that “Fort Ti” is sitting on some of the flattest land in New England, unless he was talking about scaling the wall, and if we look at our southern border…he may have been a prophet.
I’ve also seen whitetail deer scale some fairly vertical hills, but after watching a hunting show on these Ibex, deer are rank amateurs.
I haven’t watched the video, but if you look at the angle of the cliff with respect to the horizon line, is it 90 degrees? (or even close?) or maybe it’s almost true, see here:
http://thescienceexplorer.com/nature/how-mountain-goats-ascend-nearly-vertical-cliffs
It was steep, but not 90 degrees.
I had to look twice, but I think a 90% incline would be 81 degrees.