"Oh yeah, come on!" the crowd yells as a young, trim woman scales a climbing wall, grabbing onto neon moldings with fingers covered in white chalk dust and pulling herself higher and higher. Muscles flex in her tanned back and her brown pony tail sways as she reaches, and reaches and ... "Oh," the crowd cries, as she falls onto the soft, thick, blue mats below. "You feel free when you're out there," says Nina Caprez, 21, who travelled from Switzerland to compete for $10,000 cash in the third annual Mammut Bouldering Championships series in downtown Salt Lake City Saturday evening. The event was held in conjunction with the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market Trade Show in the Salt Palace Convention Center and the EnergySolutions Arena. The bouldering competition, which ran Friday and Saturday, brought out about 2,000 spectators to...
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