Mountaineering Problems

I earned this last week while climbing Wetterhorn:  My elbow caught on a rock when my trekking pole accidentally collapsed. 

Funny thing, my knees felt way worse when I fell on Princeton a few weeks ago.  In fact, they are still a little sore, but they never bruised?  However, when I hurt my elbow it stung, but was nowhere near as painful as hurting my knees.  Yet this bruised.  Oh well.  Time to look for a quality trekking pole that doesn’t collapse unless I tell it to…