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We have gone to ice climbing for the first time in the season but the ice fall was not ready yet so we headed to the crag nearby.
To my surprise, I was suddenly climbing better!
Climbing is so unpredictable and when you get better you get better so suddenly, without being aware.
This is a little gift I was given... being better at climbing.
The climbing in Green Climbers Home was tremendous fun for me but the emotion was built on the most welcoming friendly community they've got there.
I was welcomed there and that was the feeling I needed most... Here in Japan, you are no climber unless you are so good at it like climbing over 5.12 or something... people do not accept other climbers unless you are so good at.
So the ones like me who started out climbing at the age that is kind of too old to start...like over 40, and the one having a hard time climbing 5.9... are sort of looked down... and that is sad.
You won't get better in such a environment that you are constantly put down...
So what made me a better climber was a community there, and it was very international and friendly.
■ OpennessI am a very open person. I can talk to people without making a wall.
I feel most comfortable when I am in an adventurous feeling to find out who I am talking to and what kind of person he/she is, finding out what is their passion and dreams.
My dream is creating something like GCH in Japan where climbers come from all over the world to climb Japanese craggs.
I think the dream is dream, it is ok to dream... I really think Japanese craggs are the hardest of all the world and if there is such place like a GCH, the place should be in Ogawayama.
There is Kimpusansou already there to accomodate hikers but those are expensive and not at all international nor ecological.
Internationalism and Ecology is very much what I liked there in GCH.