why we start climbing

if you ask many a climber out there to share how they started their climbing adventure you'll likely hear a story that has little to do with, well, climbing. maybe it's just the folks i've asked. maybe this is only true of climbers that have discovered the sport as adults. and maybe it's just me.

climbing is an activity that is intense, expensive, time consuming, often scary and potentially risky. if, as an adult, you start making climbing one of your passions, you're probably motivated by something other than "i need to burn some serious calories." while the reasons we start this journey are varied, it seems that there are often strong emotional sparks driving us toward this very emotional activity.

but as with many things in life, why we start something isn't always why we continue.

we grow as human beings. and hopefully our passion for climbing evolves along with us.