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U.S. climber Jesse Grupper remembers when he was 16 and experienced pain in his abdomen for the first time. “I thought it was either food poisoning or just a reaction to stress from finals period,” he said on NBC’s “My New Favorite Olympian” podcast. “When the first one ended, I was like, ‘OK, that’s it. I’m not going to have these symptoms again.' But then when it came back, I realized that there was something more fundamentally wrong.
But by the end of the program, which was over the course of 12 weeks ... he was able to do almost all of the walls that we had. It was just a really transformative experience for me, getting to see how this opportunity could really transform his life. “A lot of these kids come in with the notion that climbing isn’t necessarily made for them,” he added. “And by the end of the program, they’re able to see that climbing really is for them.” Grupper realized climbing was for himself at a young age.
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