EXCHANGE COIN

It is August and right now I am training on my wall for a successful fall. I’m In front of the ventilation machine I have the hope that the removed air will also refresh my pumped forearms in order to keep on going in my series. But instead and by the moment, the only thing that I get with the fresh air machine is a messed up mind! And many reflections about a pair of articles that I had read before in a renovated international mountain magazine are coming to my mind like a waterfall. In both these articles, not only the idea of the recovery of the lost mountain and climbing ethic are revindicated, but also the pleasure of climbing just for climbing. 

I won’t refuse that nowadays I am feeling very sensible to these questions. Climbing, and especially sport climbing as an individualist sport makes the athlete become a very selfish person. The climber tends to create a new world that turns around him. Even me, when I’m working a route, I confess that to have success, I isolate my mind even from myself! 

Recently, while I visited some cliffs with my friends, a few climbers that we came across shocked us. Forgetting all politeness the first sentence that the these climbers said was: “I climb 8c and you, how hard do you climb?” Even if my friends started welcoming him they insisted on those terms. I know that it seems incredible, but I swear that I have seen it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears and not only one time!