exciting and challenging in wall/rock climbing

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Good day...

May you sent me sort of introduction bout wall/rock climbing. Thanks!
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Hi! good day.

I need to write a composition for my english subject about wall/rock climbing. I'm a beginner in wall climbing.
Here are my questions.

What makes a climber excite when they climb?
What makes them challenge?
What makes them pusg thier self beyond thier limit?

I know that you are a expert climber. Hope that you can answer my question. I would really appreciate it if you could answer these few
questions. Thank you so much! and God bless....


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Dear Jason,

As you know, every person is different.  I can only speak authentically about my own interests and experiences.  That said, I can easily tell you what inspires me about climbing.  Climbing allows me to enter the mountain world.  When I climb, I become an active part of the day,  a moving part of the mountain, a small but crucial part of something far beyond ordinary human experience.  I have many great memories of past climbs.  I especially recall one June day ten years ago.  I was a thousand feet off the ground on the Southwest Face of Half Dome.  My toes were on small edges.  I glanced to my left and saw Yosemite Falls shining in the distance.  I looked down and saw my son grinning up at me from the belay some fifty feet below.  I felt great ease, great happiness, complete oneness with the mountain and the world.    

The challenge of climbing is both physical and mental.  The physical challenge combines learning the moves and skills of climbing with achieving a good level of fitness.  The mental challenge is to have the confidence to trust your life to your own hands and feet.  When you do this successfully, you carry confidence with you into all areas of life.

Pushing one's personal limits is the most dangerous aspect of climbing.  Oh, it must be done now and then, but it often tempts even the best climbers to go beyond what is possible.  Extreme self-confidence can be a trap.  Perhaps you heard of the tragic deaths on Mt. Hood back before Christmas.  Those climbers dared too much.

Robert Walton


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Dear Jason

Here are four websites which may help.  The first is a short article about the sport.  The others have pictures and information.



Introductory article: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/learn_a_new_sport/65222

American Alpine Institute:     http://aai.cc/default.asp

National Outdoor Leadership School:  http://www.nols.edu/

Your climbing: http://www.yourclimbing.com/