Spaw: The way I read it, the "ladder" was more some rope type affair more suited to transferring to a Landing Craft.   I don't care that she sleeps with birds flying by and shitting on her while she sleeps but using a rope laddder can be tough for a fit 20 year old and completely nuts for an aging folkie at almost 70.

I too love Joan but this was a bit of the dimbulb thing to do.

Nah, I disagree....it's actually GREAT that a 69 year old is climbing rope ladders and sleeping on platforms in trees.

I have a friend who climbed the Matterhorn unguided at 74, still runs marathons at 80 and only last year, at 79, gave up 100km endurance races. The only reason he did that was that his head torch bust on the night leg of one race and he fell over a wire fence, dislocating his shoulder. After walking back to the last check-point (4 miles) he was hacked off that ther stewards wouldn't simply pull his shoulder back in and let him finish the race,but insisted on him going to hospital, so decided to hang up his 100km race boots!