Scaling Infinity (Episode 4)

Tom and I spent the remainder of the day tarrying here, tarrying there: a lesson in how to chill. The climbing was, as Tom would say—awesome—even though the only vista I experienced was an intimate look at that conveniently high warehouse ceiling. Tom said I was a native climber and just didn’t know it. Maybe he was right, or maybe he was merely setting me up. I was so drunk on all the new experiences that my defensive systems shut down leaving me naked and vulnerable to Tom’s charm. After th...