“I’m here to learn. It’s okay not to know everything. Failure is part of the process.” When I’m feeling uncomfortable or frustrated I try to remember to these words....
Even before tying in, I am pumped, and not in an excited kind of way. In an “I’m so stressed out that my whole body is tense and I am......
Drill? Check. Charged battery? Check. Bolts and hangers? Check. Pants rolled up to wade across a river with a machete slung across your rope bag? Check, check, check. ......
My biggest takeaway from the Women’s Climbing Festival was confidence. Before the women’s weekend, I’d been “learning” to lead trad for more than six months. I was hesitant to lead......
Some names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals. “This is why I don’t usually train women.” I was seething. As an empath......
The crisp autumn air bites as I inhale my first deep breath of the season. After a few unseasonably warm months in North Carolina, it finally feels like fall has......
A disclaimer: There are numerous flourishing and diverse climbing communities that exist across the world, but most communities seem to mirror sexist behaviours. Clearly, my experiences do not reflect the......
Every sport climber dreams of visiting the climbing paradise of Kalymnos at some point in their life. In the October holidays I was lucky enough to be able to travel......
I got my concussion on a day where I didn’t really feel like climbing, but I did anyway. Before anyone asks, I will mention I wasn’t wearing a helmet......
"You need to climb less and shoot more" When this advice came my way a few months ago, it was big. It came from a well-respected climbing photographer who......
After a few years of just climbing for fun I started to take it more seriously. It went from being a hobby to something my whole life revolved around,......
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers......
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