LANDER—When the International Climbers Festival’s pull-up competition kicked off in front of a packed and unruly crowd on a restaurant patio, the usual suspects were there: climbers with bulging forearms, ripped biceps and sturdy shoulders, sporting intricate tattoos, jorts and a few mullets.
Then two unlikely competitors stepped into the mix: Brothers Charlie and Sully Vedder, ages 5 and 3.
Young? Yes. Determined? You betcha.
Their mother, Libby Vedder, said that after watching the competition in years past, Charlie got it in his head that he was going to compete. And in the timeless tradition of younger brothers, Sully decided he would too. There is a youth category in the competition. Vedder was skeptical, however, that her sons’ nerve would hold when confronted with the notoriously raucous crowd.
“I knew there was going to be so many people,” she said. “I questioned them, and said, ‘Are you sure?’ And Charlie said, ‘yep.’”
He didn’t seem to blink an eye at the onlookers when he approached the pull-up bar for his turn. The crowd, however, cheered so loud that it was hard to tell just how many pull-ups he and his brother managed.
After the event, by Charlie and Sully’s telling, it was a lot. Was it two or three?
“Way more,” Charlie said. “Six … no actually, eight or nine.”
Sully, meanwhile, did even more, by his account. “I did 11.”
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