In 2018, injuries sustained from slicing avocados sent an estimated 24 Americans per day to the hospital. Most of these injuries were to the hand. Climbers like avocados. Climbers need to use their hands. A fundamental relationship exists here, and before you roll your eyes and decry me as being hyperbolic (yet again), please consider how the act of slicing an avocado relates to how we manage risk in both climbing and in life (which affects our ability to climb).
Read Morealpha climbing founder Aaron Hjelt reflects on some of the themes that accompanied this year’s trips and camps.
Read MoreClimbers are drawn to baking. A countless number of climbing partners and athletes I’ve had have worked as bakers to some extent. I have many theories for the mutual agreement between climbing and baking, but my main hunch is that when we aren’t climbing, we knead to be creating things with our hands.
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