My mind went back to a statement from a street performer in Cape Town the previous day: “Check this out, I’m about to be amazing!” At the time I had joked about using his catch phrase for my climbing, but I hadn’t really meant it because this whole time I’d been so focused on the opposite: staying humble, no egos allowed. What if that was the kind of energy I needed right now though? What if there was something in between my meek humility on this trip and the toxic rage from my yout...
