How are the professional climbers reacting to all of the
new climbing population? To be honest, the majority of them bring the new
climbers into the sport.
Professional climbers such as Sasha Digiulian(19) and Ashima Shiraishi(11)
have brought the most attention to climbing due to their young age. They aspire many young women to want to
train and become stronger than the boys.
Girls have seen this accomplished at such a young age and want to beat
the boys. The professionals love
climbing so much that they want everyone to understand their passion, but
climbing is such a hard passion to explain. Some people live and breathe climbing, most people do not
understand why anyone would want to live off peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
and live of out a van for the rest of their lives, just to climb everyday. Now all this attention they bring to climbing is causing more and more people to start. They are encouraging people to start climbing, but are they teaching them how to properly start? Do they know anything about climbing ethics? Probably not. We could fix this predicament if all the experienced climbers provided a good example and taught others what they learned already. The Access Fund has already begun to teach the "gumbies" by creating comical videos.
Over the past few years climbing has exponentially increased in interest amongst kids, teens, and adults. Due to this increase, some climbers were outraged that so many people were joining the sport and not being considerate of the outdoors. This blog was to created to give their voice some of the spotlight.
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