hero [ heer -oh ] "A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life" Over 4 years on from the epic rescue on the Peñon d'Ifach of a Base Jumper & now great friend Hana, I wanted to reflect on my experience and respond to the label of a "Hero" Sunday 3rd April 2011 However you wrap it up, climbing is a selfish pursuit. It is justly a respectable physical & mental discipline with many examples of admirable achievement, maybe even honourable but never noble. It may lead to mastering qualities of self that can be later applied to acts of nobility, but ultimately the action of climbing itself only serves the climber. So there I was, eye to eye with a complete stranger, who's current predicament had more in common with a Hollywood action film than real life. I could see her canopy was impossibly snagged on a ledge that bore no definition but had somehow caught her an