Can climbing become replacing traditional fitness? Some time ago, climbing has become my favourite sport. At the first view, it seems a bit strange when you see someone on the rock trying to get the top of the rock or some certain spot, while there is a far easier way to reach the spot. So climbing is a kind of sports which can be done inside a premise and outside – at the seaside, at the rive, in the wood – everywhere you can find some huge stone, bolder or a high rock. So, climbing is an active sport. It involves special techniques and strategies and certain physical shape. In my point of view, climbing is a sort of solving some problem. When you come up to the wall, at first, some climbing route looks intimidating and impossible to get the top. You can’t even start, do any step. Then you start thinking, and in some time of training your muscles and studying techniques, you manage to do more. And if you don’t give up, you’ll make it. I tell everyone that to take up climbing you need not much. First of all, you need climbing shoes for beginners, a liquid or dry chalk, and a bag for this chalk. If you’re thinking of trad-climbing with your partner you’ll probably need a rope, harness, carabiners, a helmet and quickdraws. But I think you should buy a harness because you can use it at some indoor climbing wall. You don’t need any special clothes and possess any special qualities. Any average person can start. If you don’t become a top climber you will get a chance of being healthier and keeping your body fit.