Here’s The Truth About Rock Climbing You Don’t Hear In The Media

It’s proven safer than many sports and it’s a healthy lifestyle for all ages, not just an outlet for thrillseekers.

Cynthia Marinakos
8 min readJan 27, 2020

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Illustration by Cynthia Marinakos.

I just did a Google search for ‘rock climbing’ and look at the top 2 news articles:

Young boy falls 10 metres down rock-climbing wall in Gosford
Boy injured in fall at Central Coast Clip N’Climb

Photo: Screenshot of google search for “rock climbing”. Accessed: 21 Jan 20.

In the year that rock climbing will make its debut in an Olympics, there’s a need to take a deeper look into the sport. Because it’s only when you gain a more thorough understanding of what’s really involved in rock climbing that you’ll be less sucked into the media’s proven affliction for negative, gloomy news.

You see, mainstream media give the public a perception that rock climbing is just exercise or for adrenalin junkies, risk-takers. Sure it seems like that when the media chooses to highlight accidents to an audience without bothering to balance out their gloom.

In this article, I share with you a look into rock climbing safety, comparative sport injury…

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Cynthia Marinakos
Cynthia Marinakos

Written by Cynthia Marinakos

Aussie Copywriter. I love rock climbing high ceilings and hiking amongst ferns.

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