Talk:The Mandala/Archive 1

First ascent date contradiction.
This article states that the first ascent was in 2000, but the Chris Sharma article states that the first ascent was in 1999. Ronnam (talk) 03:16, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Introduction
Often I hear that rock climbing articles on wikipedia are over-specialized and inaccessible to non-climbing types. I'd like to address this a little. There are literally hundreds of math/science articles on wikipedia that are far less accessible, with far poorer introduction. That said, climbing IS highly specialized and necessarily entails jargon; clicking the 'bouldering' link through the first sentence can acquaint the reader with nearly all the relevant terms. So what's the big idea? How could this intro be improved? I'm interested in helping, but not quite sure how I can go about it.