He chuckled and stuck his own tongue out in return. "To be fair I think it felt harder than it looked. Boxing gives me plenty of arm and core strength which definitely helped," he said.
His two different journalistic jobs meant that if he was looking for it he was pretty good at reading body language and tone and Cassandra definitely seemed to be flagging a bit. "I'm good to do one more after they've been through everyone else," he said, gesturing faintly to the remainder of their little group that he'd been ignoring. "But if you'd rather pass over or get away now I'm cool with that," he said. He'd had a great time, but it was about spending time with Cass not really about the climbing.