A brave new WALL
FELIX GALLOWAY just broke his personal speed record for a 12-metre climb.
“Write it down, 59.88 seconds,” he urges, pointing to the notes I’m writing.
Very soon he’s back with a huge grin. “You have to change it, I just did 58.95 seconds.”
Later that evening, it takes me several minutes to climb a similar route. And unlike Felix, I don’t have cerebral palsy.
“It affects his left side, not that you’d know it looking at him after five weeks climbing,” says his dad, Richard, on belay. “He’s a lot stronger than he was even two weeks ago.”
Volunteer instructor Robyn Maxwell keeps the excited Felix ‘on the ground’ so to speak. “Look for perfect lowering, keep yourself
