Up in the Air

This past weekend, we took our high school students on a retreat to Camp Silver Beach. We had such a great time! One of the things we did while we were there was climb the giant 55 foot Alpine Tower.


Ryan went last and one of the guys from Silver Beach asked him if he was an experienced climber and if he wanted to climb the tower a different way than everybody else. Ryan of course, took the challenge!

The tower had 3 different sides with all kinds of different ways to climb. The tower supervisor challenged Ryan to climb up the ladder that was suspended from the tower by two ropes. He told Ryan to climb the ladder WITHOUT touching the ropes...while it was swinging in the air.


Ryan made it up the first 3 out of 4 rungs before giving up on the challenge and climbing to the top. I have no idea how he even made it that far. It looked pretty impossible to me! On his way down, the guy that challenged Ryan told me that he's never seen anyone actually make it to the top that way. My man almost did!