How olds......too old:)

[CJM]

I'm 28 and I feel I'm at the top of my game although I'm starting to feel aches and pains that I never felt 10 years ago and if I'm being honest it's only going to get worse, I feel the next 10 years will be in decline. I'll still be able to do the job but not everyday

[Nick B]

I am 50 in 3 weeks time and I still enjoy climbing.

You wont make a contract climber but you will save money getting one in to do your own work I would go for it.

[Stephen Blair]

38 with constant aches and pains, climbing isn't hard for me , ringing up and lifting stuff is, hence why I bought the digger and grab and own a hiab

[paul morris]

47 in August jst gone back into private sector, lead climber although not climbing every day, few maintance jobs, but mainley climbing & loving it

[palborough]

I recently started climbing at 50. Age is not the problem. So far the biggest problem seems to be the music the younger lads want on the van radio! Chatting to my climbing and chainsaw assor he suggested that climbing is the last place for reprobates that have had alsorts of other jobs and have now found something they enjoy.

 

The youngsters do listen to some crap don't they:singer:

[Andrew Gale]

I'm 43 and spent my early years thinking I was invincible; turns out that I wasn't! Knackered shoulder, dodgy neck and an iffy knee; still carry out climbed inspections but haven't wielded a chainsaw in anger for a few years now.

Miss the buzz of getting up high and onto the tips, but don't miss visiting the chiropractor every 6 weeks.......

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I'm 28 and I feel I'm at the top of my game although I'm starting to feel aches and pains that I never felt 10 years ago and if I'm being honest it's only going to get worse, I feel the next 10 years will be in decline. I'll still be able to do the job but not everyday

 

Thats purely a mental barrier, the technical term being phsycosematic or something like that.

 

The uphill path to forty was incredibly hard and hardest the closer it got, then once I hit forty all that BS went out the window and I was freed of my mental self limitation.

[Sandworks]

Hitting 50 and climbing more and more, happiest I've been in years,had climbers working for me,got "buddies" in, but if you want a job done properly…….and i turn up when i say i will…… pulled my finger out a good few years ago and got up in the canopies…. best move i ever made! go for it!

[Arran Turner]

I think a lot of it comes down to conditioning and lifestyle rather than age as regards to how long you can climb for,

 

For example eating well,

stretching before and after climbing

Going to a physio once a month to get a massage to help with aches and pains

Sleeping well (easier for some and harder for others)

Actually having days off to rest

Doing Yoga

Etc etc etc

 

EDIT: all in the perfect world

[aquatoo]

It's easy to tell when you are too old ......................you can't get up the tree!