First multipitch climb in the mountains for Sunny kid.
7.8.2019
Starting point: Pri Mlinču 1094 m
Climbing route: Raz III/II
Top: 1918m
Altitude difference: 824m
Climbing is dangerous I was told. Why would you want to teach her this stuff? Do you really want that she takes up this sport seriously, aren’t you afraid? You are teaching her a dangerous lifestyle!
First of all, I am not teaching her anything, I am just living my life and showing her my passions. If she wouldn’t like it and enjoy it, she wouldn’t be doing it. She was born with wanderlust. She is an adrenaline seeker always on a lookout for new experiences and new challenges. I consider it my duty to show her how mountaineering and climbing are done safely since it is an important part of our lives. With me or without me she would find a way into the climbing world, I am sure. Now I have a chance to be there with her, to teach her responsibility and let her experience fear and bravery, while she has someone looking after her. She can now safely explore her limits, think about her choices and make mistakes. When the time will come, that she will be alone in the rocks or adventuring in other situations, I am sure, that these experiences and all that she learned will make her much safer, wiser and more thoughtful, then if she would be trying it out on her own.
I have some amazing friends. Friends who are also climbers. Climbers who take big wishes of a little kid seriously. Sunny kid is a born climber. She climbs in the gym a lot, has some experiences in the rocks of climbing areas, but she has never climbed a real route in the mountains yet. She wished to try and I am so thankful to these two girls for believing in her and taking her climbing. And me along.
They chose the route Raz, which is a multi-pitch climb rated II/III.
Sunny kid did great. She wasn’t sure if she likes it though. The climbing part yes, but the rock was really crumbly and she had more work trying out what will hold then with climbing itself.
It was an amazing day overall. Kiddo was really proud of herself, as she should be and the big girls also. Girl power it is 😉
Crumbly rocks were forgotten by the evening and new climbing plans and ideas were on the table already.
Go adventure together!!! Trust the little ones, give them a chance to live their dreams.
A child is trying to climb a tree; what will you do? You immediately become afraid – he may fall, he may break his leg, or something may go wrong. And out of your fear you rush and you stop the child. If you had known what joy it is to climb a tree, you would have helped so that the child could learn how to climb trees! And if you are afraid, help him, go and teach him. You also climb with him! Help him learn so he doesn´t fall. Your fear is good – it shows love, that the child may fall, but to stop the child from climbing the tree is to stop the child from growing. There is something essential about climbing trees. If a child has never been doing it, he will remain in some way poor, he will miss some richness – for his whole life. You deprive him of something beautiful, and there is no other way to know about it! And once in a while, falling from a tree is not so bad either. Rather than being deprived forever.
Or, the child wants to go out in the rain and wants to run around the streets in the rain, and you are afraid he may catch a cold or get pneumonia or something – and your fear is right! So do something so that he is more resistant to colds. Take him to the doctor; ask the doctor what vitamins should be given to him so that he can run in the rains and enjoy and dance and there is no fear that he will catch cold or will get pneumonia. But don´t stop him. To dance in the streets when it is raining is such a joy! To miss it is to miss something very valuable.
If you know happiness and if you are aware, you will be able to feel for the child, how he feels.
Osho, Walk without Feet, Fly without Wings and Think without Mind, Talk #2