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Post by Greg Stamper on Oct 12, 2022 12:06:08 GMT -5
Katie Brown’s Book ‘Unraveled’ Broke My Heart. I’m Glad I Read ItEvery young competitor who thinks about cutting weight or calories should add this one to their list. October 10, 2022 Delaney Miller Picture this: a young girl, wide-eyed, views the final route. It’s the X Game in 1996, the pinnacle competition in the burgeoning climbing world. The other competitors—Slovenians, Frenchwomen, other foriegn nationals all ranked the best in the world—mime the route. They study it intently and discuss it in small groups. The girl, just 15, stands off to the side with pursed lips and a squint in her eyes. She huddles tighter in her sweater and barely glances at the route, more interested in the ground, in getting this whole thing over with. She wants to tell the looming cameras, the spectors, the whole world that she couldn’t care less. Observation period ends. The climbers climb. The young girl? She goes last. Her expression never changes when she ties in. Not when she pulls on or climbs, painstakingly slow. Not when she pulls the lip of the wall and onto the final headwall. Nope, not even when she clips the chains does she crack a smile. Did she just win the whole damn thing? You betcha. But she is an anvil: strong and unmoving. Continue Reading: www.climbing.com/news/katie-browns-book-unraveled/
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