Mina Leslie-Wujastyk

Rock and Ice Contributing Writer Mina Leslie-Wujastyk grills performance dietician Rebecca Dent on all the knowledge she's gleaned over her years working with climbers.

Mina Leslie-Wujastyk and her friend needed to coin a new term to describe the feeling of pushing into the furthest realms of exhaustion.

Leslie-Wujastyk explores the determination that led her to continue projecting a classic route, Rainshadow (9a/5.14d), in Malham Cove, U.K., even after a serious accident while working the route.

What do you do to prepare for a climb? What are your strategies, your tricks and routines? Mina Leslie-Wujastyk tells us about her recently discovered secret weapon.

Failure in climbing can mean many things: disappointment, sadness, even injury or death. According to Mina Leslie-Wujastyk, failure is, once we recover from it, one of our most powerful tools.