Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Fred Beckey got hooked on climbing after a trip up the glaciers of Mount Olympus on the Olympic Peninsula with a Boy Scout troop in the 1930s


Indoor rock climbing facility to open in Watertown this summer
Boston.com
An indoor rock climbing facility - billed by the company as the largest and most advanced in New England - will open in Watertown this summer. Massachusetts-based Central Rock Climbing Centers will open the new facility in June, featuring 28,000 square ...
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Climbing legends speak at CWU
Daily Record-News
Fred Beckey got hooked on climbing after a trip up the glaciers of Mount Olympus on the Olympic Peninsula with a Boy Scout troop in the 1930s. “I made it up Mount Olympus without falling in a crevasse and I thought it was more fun than team sports,” he ...
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Medical Mystery Monday #127: the case of the difficulty climbing
Albany Times Union (blog)
A 60 year old woman sees her primary doctor because she feels too weak to climb the stairs in her home. She states that over the past few months, she has gradually had trouble climbing them, and now she needs to grip the handrail and take one slow step ...
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Mountaineer To Attempt Slowest Everest Climb Ever
Gadling
Climbing to the 29,029-foot summit of Mt. Everest is never an easy feat. It requires supreme dedication, uncompromising focus and peak physical conditioning, not to mention near perfect weather conditions and a healthy dose of luck. But one mountaineer ...
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The Gear You Need to Climb the Trees                                                                                                               
Popular Mechanics
The Gear You Need to Climb the Trees. Whether your purpose for going aloft is some minor trimming or branching out with a new hobby, tree climbing takes you back to childhood—except now you have some cool tools at your disposal. By Jennings Brown ...
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Man arrested after climbing in wolf pen
WXIA-TV
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Authorities say they've arrested a man who is accused of climbing into a pen with wolves at a wildlife center in Savannah. Police were called to the Oatland Island Wildlife Center after witnesses reported seeing a man inside a pen that ...
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80-Year-Old Heart Surgery Survivor Aims for Everest Climbing Record
TIME
But have you heard about the octogenarian who's made not one, but four trips to the hospital for heart surgery, and who — despite those ailments — wants to become the oldest person to climb the highest mountain the world? (MORE: History Made: U.S ...
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Amputee to attempt to climb using 'climbing feet'
Scotsman
Jamie Andrew, from Edinburgh, will attempt the climb in the Dutch city of Groningen using prosthetic “climbing feet”. He lost his hands and feet to frostbite after being trapped at 12,000ft in the French Alps by bad weather. Email to a friend; Print ...
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Quadruple amputee sets his sights on climbing world's tallest wall
Deadline News
A QUADRUPLE amputee is setting himself the ultimate challenge by scaling the tallest climbing wall in the world. Mountaineer Jamie Andrew, will attempt the climb of a life time at Groningen, Holland using prosthetic “climbing feet” in his second ...
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Miss Manners on Social Climbing through Philanthropy
The Nonprofit Quarterly
“Society is fortunate that hordes of social climbers strive through philanthropy. If not for the hope of whatever they consider upward mobility, there would be far less charity. However, this is done at the committee and board level by people who have ...
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Russian photographer apologizes for pyramid photos - CNN.com
Probably this very feeling made us climb onto the top of the Pyramid and see the the panorama of ... We started climbing as fast and as soundless as we could.
www.cnn.com/2013/03/28/.../russian-photographer-apology

Lohmann: You don't have to be a kid to enjoy climbing trees ...
Jocelyn Lohse says she “climbed everything I could find” when she was a kid, which sort of explains why, at age 30, she was scrambling around the upper ...
www.timesdispatch.com/.../article_cf5fc380-6e6d-5765-bb30-...

 

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