On the competition floor, there are no friends. Right? Climbing is an individualized sport that not only requires deliberate mental and physical execution but careful and constant calculation of your competition’s, too. It would be easy to show up, perform, and collect your medals without so much as a word exchanged, but Kyra Condie and Alex Johnson’s relationship is far from that; it’s had many different facets over the years: coach/athlete, competitors, teammates, training partners, and finally, friends.