'Rock climbing is one of those full-body, entire-mind activities: All you can think about is how the hell to get over this ledge.'
Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Videos: Getty From 70 feet below, I hear a shout: “That’s it!” Jagged granite is biting my fingertips, each sharp point like the top of a miniature mountain. Sweat is slipping into my eye and I blink hard. My arms shake as I drag my foot up along the vertical rock face I’m clinging to, and my rubber-tipped toe finds a tiny divot, the width of a stick of gum. I try to stand up on the small indentation.
I’d like to say I felt alive after that first go, but I was mostly exhausted. Still, my partner gifted me an intro class over the holidays, and in early 2021 I learned the basics: knots and shiny metal equipment and belaying , the standard call-and-response shouts between climber and belayer, when to catch your partner mid-fall, and how to lower someone many stories above the ground.
Today, I’m regularly summiting routes at the Cliffs’ climbing gyms or, when possible, at Mohonk Preserve or Minnewaska State Park a few hours upstate. Outdoor climbing is more physically exhausting, hauling yourself up a sheet of rumpled rock that was designed by the elements, not a professional route-setter. At the gym, it’s clear which hold, bright as a crayon, to put your foot on next; in the great outdoors, when you look down, all you see is rock.
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