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Climbing
Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep object. It is done recreationally, competitively, in trades that rely on it, and in emergency rescue and military operations. It is done indoors and out, on natural and man-made structures.
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Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust.
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― Last Places: A Journey in the North – A Classic Adventure Along Ancient Viking Routes from Norway to Newfoundland
― Last Places: A Journey in the North – A Classic Adventure Along Ancient Viking Routes from Norway to Newfoundland
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By 1987 I had a stack of cartoons. That summer, stormbound on Mount Sir Francis Drake, while bailing the tent like it was a canoe shot by a cannon, I told my friend Dave Harris about the work. David was a graphic designer and his wife sold printing for a large print shop. “Do a comic book!” he said. So, with ginormous help from the both of them, I did. Three hundred copies of Lies and slander from a demented little corner of the coast range were printed up and sold for five bucks each. And then,
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― Secret Plans: Vol. III: 40+ Years of Cartoons for Climbers
― Secret Plans: Vol. III: 40+ Years of Cartoons for Climbers
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