Men's Sport Climbing Finals

My first time rock climbing was when I was living in France in the summer of 2020. I quickly fell in love, having always enjoyed climbing trees and scrambling over rocks. It was like discovering a sport that connected me with my childhood self. For the first month, I climbed wearing basketball shoes, as I had no climbing shoes of my own. When I moved back to the US, it wasn't until a couple years later that I started climbing consistently, joining a gym and finding a community. Watching the best climbers in the world compete in Paris, sticking impossible boulder problems and ascending the lead wall, was a thing of beauty I will never forget.