Below is an article I wrote for the Arc’teryx Bird blog in early 2019 when I was recovering from a badly broken wrist. REPAIRING THE MIND AND THE BODY Words: Mina Leslie-WujastykPhotos: Frann Barker This article hopes to provide some basic insight and advice around injury management for climbers. It’s not exhaustive and it’s not specific; a lot of what you may or may not do, of course, depends on your particular injury and where you currently are on the road to recovery. Treat this more as a broad stroke tool; a collection of ideas and suggestions that have an applicable, yet zoomed out, v ..read more

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. By Mina Leslie-Wujastyk | February 13th, 2019  Rebecca Dent eyeing up the next hold. Photo: Kevin Avery. How do you start your climbing day? Do you tuck into some variation of overnight oats or a tasty fry up of eggs and bacon? Perhaps you drink a green smoothie? Or do you just smash a coffee and push on with your day? In the world of climbing, nutrition is starting to take center stage alongside our gro ..read more

MINA LESLIE-WUJASTYK REFLECTS ON NOT SENDING  Words: Mina Leslie-Wujastyk Photos: James Turnbull It’s interesting to sit down and write a blog about not sending a route. I think it’s a shame that often these are the articles that don’t get written, or at least not as much. Our media is saturated with sending and that’s great; there is a lot to be gleaned from someone’s experience of success and the work and learning that led to it. But I feel there is also a gap in what we see. Everyone fails in climbing, probably 95% of the time, but the content that emerges doesn’t reflect that ..read more