RUTLAND, Vt. (WCAX) - It may be hard to believe, but inside the Green Mountain Climbing Center in Rutland, there are a bunch of fossils.

“The Flailing Fossils is what we call ourselves,” said Denis Coriell, who is among a handful of Super Seniors in a group that is looking upward, roped into a sport they can’t put down.

At 73, Coriell has been climbing inside and outside for years. Her friend, Pat Hunter, is relatively new to the sport. She says her earliest climb was far from uplifting.

“The first thing -- how frightened I was. I got up that wall about halfway and froze because I looked down and went, ‘Oh my God,’” Hunter said. “And when I got to the top... We touch our head when we get to the top. The exhilaration was that I could have done it.

Now 77, Hunter and the other group of S

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