While students ascend the stairs of Gelman Library during midterm season, members of GW Club Climbing are scaling rock walls. Clad in cargo pants and glove-like grippy shoes, a cohort of GW students take the Metro’s Blue Line four times a week to mount the climbing walls of Crystal City’s Movement Gym. Established in spring 2021, GWCC is composed of a competition team — whose six members this year practice thrice weekly — and a recreational team, whose around 50 consistent members make up the bulk of the group and practice at least twice a week.