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What got you started? 11-Jul-2003 At 4:00:23 PM V

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On 11/07/2003 FatBoy wrote:
>There's a common thread here. Virtually no-one tried to get into climbing
>and succeeded. For most of us, climbing found us completely by accident.
> It seems that few of us actually chose climbing, rather climbing chose
>us.

Reminds me of a conversation I had once with a more experienced rockclimber who I was climbing with at the time, soon after I started climbing. I commented that the reason I was into rock climbing was probably circumstantial and that if it hadn't been for certain coincidences it would never have happened. He replied that almost certainly in my case it was a natural progression and that I would have ended up involved in climbing somehow even if I hadn't stumbled across the uni club.

I saw on the back of a T-shirt once: "Few people have it -- even fewer know what to do with it" and that stuck in my mind. (Okay, it was a "No Fear" T-shirt, but it sounded plausible...)