The Rock climging partners...
Rock climbing is not precisely a team sport, but climbing partners have a lot to do in terms on how quickly we can develop our skills and without a doubt, a key in rock climbing.
Por: XplorandoGuatemala.com
Julio, Manuel y Héctor asegurando
en Amatitlán.
The friendship you will se among all mountain sports is something very hard to find in other sports, especially the kind of trust and confidence you get between rock climbing partners.
Such confidence has its roots not only in the long walks, treks and ascents in the mountains or valleys to get to the routes. It is based directly in the fact that EVERY TIME we climb, we are putting our lifes and safety in the hands of a friend using a rope: the belayer.
In very few activities you get to see how others are facing risk, same as seing how they face their fears, contradictions and will. At the same time, when you rock climb, our friends will be able of watching us succeed against our fears, just as we will be able of seing them...
Watching someone overcoming his fears is something you will rarely find in other sports.
Lety Núñez and Juan Carlos
at Amatitlán crags.
Every rock climber, at any time of his life starts the journey of findind the partner to get to the rock and train outdoors. This can take some time as you will see how hard it is to find a friend to talk to, share time in long trips and at the same time, who keeps the motivation and will at a high level so both of you can climb really hard without loosing the fun.
The life in the mountaints is not usually easy... rock climbing involves from the start: long trips, long walks and frecuently, extenuation journies with heavy rope, gear and food on your back.
Is kinda easy to get mad and at the same time bored with the long trips, mostly when the routes we climb are hard and we don't get to finish them as we wanted to, so you really need someone who carries along with the life in the mountains.
You will have to learn on how to respect the personal space of each, because usually we tend to isolate ourselves in deep ways of thinking when we are on the mountain, or learn to keep silent when someone is climbing.
But over all, you will need a great sense of friendship. This kind of relations is hard to find, mostly in the city. And some people will have problems getting the idea of such friendship, because they haven't experiencied something like facing danger with the confidence that down below is somebody taking care of everything so you can be safe, ready for that moment when you fall.
Anyways, we, the rockclimbers, are great people enjoying life, landscapes, great views, challenges and goals.. and mostly, the kind of friendship we talked before, wher you trust your life to somebody else and that somebody else trust his life to you.
