Word: rappelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name is Jimmy, and he is a victim of cerebral palsy. Then there is Suzanne, a bright 16-year-old deaf girl filmed as she experiments with test tubes in a chemistry lab and learns how to rappel on a tree in an outdoor class. Suzanne's speech, which sounds to the untrained ear like a record played at the wrong speed, requires dubbing on the screen. And there's Lisa, a severely retarded eight-year-old with multiple handicaps. For her, just learning to eat with a spoon is a major educational triumph...
...pond near Utah's Fremont River Canyon for a prebreakfast dip. Soon after, the group set out on a 1,200-ft. descent to the canyon floor. That evening they dined on freeze-dried chili and M&M candies, then rested up for the next day's rappel down an 80-ft. cliff...