Prejudice

It was the very last week end of 2016, we had planned to do a guided rock-climbing. Although I have done this before, it was a first time experience with the family as a whole.

We booked the tickets and reached the down hill by morning 6am. There were no body, except a person, appeared like a boy from distance. I crossed the person and started looking for guiding group, rock climbing kits and started climbing towards the mountain. The person called me by phone and said, "pl wait, I am the trainer" . I looked back and realised the person is a girl with the boy-cut hair style, ~aged close to 45 and I started thinking, how come a girl could guide me and that too rock-climbing. For a while, I thought I wasted money by calling guided rock-climbing with this trainer. She said, "let's start, we need to claim this small mountain to reach the rocky patch up and camp there to do the training". I said, "Ok, let's go, this seems a small mountain, so don't have to rest in the middle" and we started. She walked front and we followed.

Within 15min, I realised I could not follow her, as she was climbing very fast, breaking all the plant branches on the way, creating way for us and was very cool & strong. I told her, "can we little slow down?". She smiled at me and started walking slowly. We reached the rocky patch and she opened her big bag and started dismantling the kit. I didn't realise that she carried full climbing kit for 10 people, weighing ~15 kg. She started taking the theory class for about an hour. Amazing explanation about the principles of climbing; 3/4 point contact with the rock; pressure holds, hand/leg holds; body endurance; how to use the kit/knot/hammer; power drift; breathing.. etc. My god, it is a big science and a graduation can be set in that. Then she started setting up the rope/clamps and demonstrated level 1 (she planned to do 3 levels on that day for training).

I thought I can easily do this, I started first. Within 10% of climbing I realised, it was so difficult, there is nothing to hold. We need to lift the entire body only by the power in finger.