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Mike FORWARD

Tell me about your climbing history and how you first got into bouldering?

I started climbing in 1991 when I was ten. A family friend took me to the Blue Mountains and hauled me up a grade 15. I was hooked. I loved the adventure, being up high, being outside. I pestered them to take me as often as they could. A few years later, I found out I could do climbing as a school sport. I had already enrolled in tennis, and the coach wouldn’t let me switch. So I would go out there and play as

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