It’s a mid-November day at ASCEND Climbing Gym on Pittsburgh’s South Side, and an 11-year-old boy who’s afraid of heights just made it to the top of a 12-foot boulder.
“That is the very first time he made it up, I am so impressed,” his mom, Melissa, says.
Back on the mats, Melissa’s son shakes off the nerves of his new feat.
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