Word: climbers
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...avid rock climber, rower, and chess player, former Cabot House resident and aspiring arborist M. Brooke Halsey ’06 will be remembered by friends and family as a humble “wiry tree spirit” with a profound sense of humor...
...That’s the beauty of cycling,” Hong says. “People of all different body types can still do well. I found my strength and niche as a climber and am just focusing on that to hopefully become one of the best climbers in the country...
...Campbell, who himself has climbed four Himalayan peaks, says he's worried for everyone involved: "Fabrizio is putting himself at great risk. Pérez, if he's a strong young climber, might survive. But someone who has been trapped at 6,000 meters for five or six nights is probably slowly dying." (See pictures of triumph and tragedy on the world's highest mountain, Everest...
...rescue schemes. Howard Paul, former president of the Colorado Search and Rescue Board, worries that people will hesitate to call for help if they know it will come with a price tag. He points to numerous anecdotes in which people, fearing costs, have refused rescue despite grim injuries: a climber who hobbled down a 3,000-ft. mountain with a broken ankle; a woman who set out on her own to locate her missing husband; a lost and bewildered runner who hid from rescue crews. "We know that when people believe that they are going to receive a large bill...
...Rattner] has the advantage of being an active and willing social climber but not being sleazy. He is very smooth." - Michael Wolff, in an excerpt from his book Autumn of the Moguls, ( New York...