There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.
I'm not thinking about anything when I'm climbing, which is part of the appeal. I'm focused on executing what's in front of me.
I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.
The types of climbing that I choose to do I'm good at justifying. I do really try and pick things that I'm going to live through. I don't want to die, and I'm relatively cautious. I play with that line all the time. I want things that are very exciting, so much so that they can feel almost spiritual.
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.
Climbing has a lot of themes that are applicable to people, no matter who you are.
I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.