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Fine, Let's Climb The Matterhorn
Adventures in learning how to climb a mountain after growing up in the flattest state in America.
##We started planning about a year in advance. I was feeling bored and slightly lethargic, like I hadn’t done anything outside of work that was “big.”
The annoying part about learning to mountain climb is that it sounds intuitive, you just go up and then when you’ve gotten as high as you can, you go back down.
This, it turns out, is the easiest part. There are all these other gnarly components to mountain climbing that take way more time to learn, like how to use crampons, how to actually climb on ice, and how to use an ice pick. Coming from Iowa, I hadn’t been around any of these things before so I decided to sign up for a quick class to figure it out. The New Hampshire.