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...Whenever I'm completely at the end of my rope, I go to Jennifer, and I always feel better when I leave," adds Gena White '87, who has known Gordon since freshman year...
...secret of his mountaineering successes is that he travels light, as he might to climb an Alpine peak. The legendary pinnacles are, to him, small ascents stacked one on top of another. He scales the earth's greatest heights by what he calls "fair means," avoiding the rope networks, high-mountain camps and bottled air that were part of the historic eight-thousander sieges, which frequently involved ten or more climbers supported by dozens of Sherpas. The minimalist technique has attracted thousands of imitators. Says Swiss Mountain Guide Erhard Loretan, 27, who, with his countryman Jean Troillet, 38, raced...
...throws a loop around the sorrel colt's neck. The horse runs, then plants his feet and struggles. Ray holds the lariat tight -- not with a "fighting feel," but patiently, until the fear subsides. As soon as the colt moves forward, Ray rewards him by throwing slack in the rope...
...When the mind is troubled, the body is troubled," Ray says over and over. Now he ropes the colt's back foot, and another fight ensues. When the colt leans away from the rope, his hind leg is suspended in air. "There's a change," Ray says and lets the lariat go loose. Belatedly, we see that the colt's neck and shoulder have relaxed. "I try to make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard," Ray explains...
After the colt has rested for a few moments, but before he can "start making plans," Ray drapes the rope over the sorrel's tail and rump, under his belly, between his legs. "He's not afraid of his mane and tail," Ray says with a grin. "He was born with them. But he's not sure about me or this rope. It's natural for him to protect himself. In his world, he's not doing anything wrong...