From Dumplings To Rock – 2018 China Climbing Documentary
The story of Xiaolu, a Chinese woman who makes dumplings by night to support her climbing by day.
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Meet Xiaolu, a young woman from Liuzhuo, China, who—after learning to climb—would dash off to the crag, during her short breaks from her job working at a sushi restaurant, to squeeze in whatever climbing she could. Wanting even more time to climb , she moved to Yangshuo, where she opened a dumpling shop. “Basically I sold dumplings in the morning and then went climbing in the afternoon and then made dumplings again at night,” Xiaolu says in the film.
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