Rock climbing's therapeutic effects attract different crowd

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Rock climbing's therapeutic effects attract different crowd

PHILADELPHIA — Virginie Buzan is hanging like a fruit bat 30 feet above ground, held only by her tense fingers and slippered feet, which are gripping a few potato-size chunks of rubber bolted into the ceiling.

In Hollywood, people are paid — generously — to pull stunts like this. But here, at the Go Vertical climbing gym, a cavernous former warehouse on Philadelphia’s waterfront, regulars like Buzan pay $625 a year for the privilege of defying gravity — and normal standards of self-preservation. Read More

By Melissa Dribben - McClatchy Newspapers