This is a running notepad on climbing and my exploration of the sport. I am using this space as an attempt at answering the question:

“What is climbing?”

Climbing has become something very fundamental in my life. I think a lot about it, and I’ve found myself viewing the world through the lens of climbing.

I started climbing in the spring of 2023 when I was unemployed and didn’t have much going on.

Through the sport, I found several things.

  1. An outlet for physical movement and energy
  2. Community
  3. An identity shift1

I’m not writing this expecting to actually answer the question I described above, but rather, I want to articulate how this medium has shaped me as an individual and why I find it beautiful.

  1. I began identifying as someone who climbs, and through this identification, I began challenging who I thought I was and what I thought I could do. ↩