Creating More Diversity in Our Climbing Community

Creating More Diversity in Our Climbing Community

by | Oct 12, 2022 | 5.Life

Left to right: Vanessa Brias, Carrie Roccos, Mardi Roberts Creating More Diversity in Our Climbing Community Author: Steve Wartenberg steve.wartenberg@gmail.com Mardi Roberts attended an event for the owners of multiple indoor rock-climbing gyms during the recent 2022...
Family time around the fire

Family time around the fire

by | Jun 1, 2021 | 5.Life

We have a new member of the family here at 5.life and it has made me reflect on family and community especially in light of the last 15+ months. As a young family that was transferred far from home in the early 90s, the climbing community in Central and Southern Ohio...
KISS

KISS

by | Mar 12, 2021 | 5.Life

Keep It Simple to Send (OR Keep it Simple to Succeed) At it’s core climbing is a pretty simple activity. Go up. Not much more to it than that. We humans tend to make things way too complicated. Why do we choose to ‘Go Up?’ Because it’s there. (Quote attributed to...
Climbing is Dangerous

Climbing is Dangerous

by | Feb 19, 2021 | 5.Life

You are worthy, not because of achievement or by some prescribed measure, but simply because you are human. You are valuable, not because of what you offer or provide, but simply because your existence has a purpose in the world. You are a gloriously unique and...
New Name Same Values

New Name Same Values

by | Jan 17, 2019 | 5.Life

New Name Same Values We’ve been in this business for 25 years, so we started with that old school, laid back, hand-made climbing wall crag. And then the sport exploded, it was added to the Olympics, people were telling us how great that “Free Solo” movie was, and bam,...