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\"Professional<\/a>

Professional rock climbers Lisa Rands, left, and Wills Young are starting their next adventure in climbing in Chattanooga. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

For professional rock climbers Wills Young and Lisa Rands, climbing is their passion and their business.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also how they fell for each other.<\/p>\n

Married for 18 years, they have spent years doing things most people will only see in photographs or videos.<\/p>\n

In 2010, they moved to Chattanooga from Bishop, California, a little town on the cusp of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and haven\u2019t looked back.<\/p>\n

They chose the Scenic City\u2014after coming here for a competition sponsored by The North Face\u2014to start their next adventure in climbing. This time as instructors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the perfect size with stuff going on and the climbing right on the back door,\u201d said Young, who will begin teaching climbing for students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga this fall.<\/p>\n

They employ and teach UTC students at their gym, Synergy Climbing and Ninja, which they opened in the summer of 2020 amid tough times and after years of working for other people.<\/p>\n

One of their newest employees, Luke Holmes, started as an intern from the UTC College of Health and Human Performance.<\/p>\n

Holmes earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in outdoor recreation and sports management in the fall of 2021 and interned at Synergy the summer before that. He\u2019s been climbing since his teens and said the job couldn\u2019t be more perfect.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of hanging out and fun that\u2019s part of it,\u201d said Holmes. \u201cWills and Lisa are the best. They\u2019ve just done so much so it\u2019s awesome to get to work here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aside from their expertise and the innate exhilaration that comes with the very idea of rock climbing, it\u2019s no wonder people are drawn to Young and Rands. They were the late 1990s\/early 2000s version of today\u2019s social media influencers.<\/p>\n

Rands was hitting her professional stride and with Young as her coach and partner, the couple jet-setted from one spectacular destination to another. For work.<\/p>\n

A California native, Rands had just graduated with a degree in geology from California Polytechnic State University Pomona, better known as Cal Poly Pomona.<\/p>\n

Young photographed Rands tackling epic challenges\u2014her freehand climbing on the edge of protruding cliffs in Korea or clambering the round edges of a massive boulder in South Africa\u2014and wrote companion stories for Climbing Magazine. The material doubled as content for Rand\u2019s corporate sponsors to use in promotions and advertising and allowed them to \u201clive the life\u201d of dreams.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a whirlwind,\u201d said Rands, the first American to win a Bouldering World Cup and, at the time, the face of outdoor brands like Patagonia. (She\u2019s climbed the granite spires in Patagonia, a region encompassing all of southern Chile and Argentina, too.)<\/p>\n

\"Wills<\/p>\n

Starting lines<\/strong><\/h4>\n

She started climbing as a teenager and continued in college, taking a few semester-long breaks for \u201cclimbing projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young, born in California to British parents but raised in England, got into climbing as a kid on the famed gritstones of the U.K.\u2019s Peak District, located almost dead center of England.<\/p>\n

He came back to the U.S. for the first time on a one-way ticket shortly after graduating from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland with a degree in philosophy. He has dual-citizenship so the move was relatively easy, especially since he brought only a suitcase.<\/p>\n

For Young, becoming a professional philosopher seemed as far-fetched as becoming a professional climber, so he \u201cjust went for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He wound up back in California via New York City and Philadelphia, found a job selling climbing gear for Yvon Chouinard, the billionaire founder of Patagonia\u2014the climbing gear company, not the region. At the same time, he climbed in as many competitions as he could.<\/p>\n

Young and Rands met in Los Angeles \u201cdeveloping\u201d ascents in the San Gabriel Mountains and other nearby ranges.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was wicked. You get to see places nobody else on earth has ever touched,\u201d said Young, who won Rands\u2019 heart at a climbing competition in Arizona.<\/p>\n

Days after graduating from college in 1996, Rands moved to Colorado to be with Young, who by that time was working at Climbing Magazine.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when climbing became not only their passion but their business.<\/p>\n

After years of constant travel and wear-and-tear on her body, though, Rands was ready for a \u201clifestyle change\u201d by 2008. Young was, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started my career late and so, at some point, you get older and have to stop,\u201d Rands said.<\/p>\n

\"Wills<\/p>\n

New ascent<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Their gym in Chattanooga is a giant, cavernous playground. Rubbery, artificial rock faces with multicolored grips line the towering walls. People use their hands and feet like four-legged octopi to maneuver the walls, falling off like drops of water and hitting the floor mats with a thud.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also an indoor obstacle course designed by their business partner and fellow climber Isaac Caldiero, a multi-season contestant and million-dollar winner on the TV show American Ninja Warrior.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t have children but get a hint of parental satisfaction teaching college students and kids how to climb. They also lead a nationally competitive youth climbing team at the gym.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always been appealing, the idea of opening a climbing gym with my husband and teaching all the skills we learned through our lifetime of climbing and passing those on to another generation,\u201d Rands said.<\/p>\n

This is an updated version of a story that first appeared in the spring 2022 issue of <\/em>The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Magazine<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the pages of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Magazine: With their expertise and the innate exhilaration that comes with the very idea of rock climbing, it\u2019s no wonder people are drawn to Wills Young and Lisa Rands.<\/p>\n

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