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Among possible hobbies to adopt when you’re an urban 30-something searching for meaning and muscle tone, rock climbing is not a particularly original choice. The trend has been picking up steam for years, especially since the sport made its Olympic debut in 2020. It seems like everyone has a bouldering photo on their dating profile or a carabiner holding their keys together.

Friends are a key ingredient in climbing, both for practical reasons and moral support. The good news is that if you don’t already have them, they will be easy to find. Climbing culture, at least at the casual amateur level, is aggressively friendly and built on a tradition of people eager to share their freakish enthusiasm and highly specific practical knowledge with anyone who wants to listen.

By the time Mia Hamm was 28, she was already 13 years into her soccer career — and her stardom. As fans will know, at age 15, Hamm became the youngest person ever to play for a national team. She then went on to make a name for herself at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she helped the team win four consecutive NCAA women’s championships.

Throughout the ’90s, Hamm kept on winning, snagging two FIFA Women’s World Cup wins and a gold medal as part of the U.S. Women’s soccer team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. By the time 2000 rolled around, 28-year-old Hamm truly hit her stride — understanding the game much better as she geared up to compete in the Olympics again. “I wouldn’t say things were easy, but they just made a lot more sense,” she tells Bustle.