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Show Russell Jacobs 25 November 2009 But I was able to go along with those trips in the mountains. And uh, I just felt, when I was young, I think I was eleven when he took me on a mountain that, uh, with a number of other scout members. It was a stormy, stormy day, and of all those that participated, it was myself and three gentleman that were supervising the group that made it the highest. And I just felt something different. I felt that this is a great place to be. And, uh, so as I grew older and understood that I wanted to continue with that, that feeling, that I needed a little more expertise. Not, and not to be so foolhardy as to go out and just climb without any background. MD: Um-huh. RJ: So, as I grew older and became, um, aware of what I needed to do and things I needed to accomplish in order to, uh, be more of an expert, um, I educated myself. And at first, it was, it was a little bit of a trial. Uh, and I took some falls. Luckily, it ... they weren't, uh, they weren't fatal or even harmful, but it, you know, it was an eye-opener, for sure. Uh, but as I grew older and got into it, uh, I felt that I didn't just want to isolate m.yself to one aspect of climbing. MD: Uh-huh. RJ: Climbing, uh, every aspect of climbing should be, uh, looked at and, uh, and every facet of climbing. For example, you have mountaineers, you have, you know, ice climbers that climb frozen waterfalls, you have rock climbers. And then ultimately, you have people that, as climbing grew, evolved into sport climbing. I didn't want to isolate myself to any one of those, uh, parts of climbing. Uh, you should actually, and it was my philosophy that I wanted to get into every single one. Because every one of those ... every one of those disciplines, uh, created a new experience, a different experience. 2 |
