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In the late 1990s, Julia Hill climbed a 200-foot, approximately 1000-year-old Californian redwood tree & didn’t come down for another 738 days. She ultimately reached an agreement with Pacific Lumber Company to spare the tree and a 200-foot buffer zone surrounding the tree.
She would become an adventuress. She might even try mountain climbing. Not a large, life-threatening mountain, but a friendly mountain, with a nearby resort that served afternoon tea. Being an adventuress didn’t mean one had to suffer, after all.
Lisa Kleypas • Devil in Disguise (The Ravenels Book 7)
At the base of a mountain wall, where you spread out your gear to organize for a climb, it was easy to spot the tools made by Chouinard Equipment. Ours stood out because they had the cleanest lines. They were also the lightest, strongest, and most versatile tools in use. Where other designers would work to improve a tool’s performance by adding on,
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the much more difficult summit of Carstensz Pyramid (16,535 feet) in the Indonesian province of Irian Barat,
Jon Krakauer • Into Thin Air
On May 22, 1963, Tom Hornbein, a thirty-two-year-old doctor from Missouri, and Willi Unsoeld, thirty-six, a professor of theology from Oregon, reached the summit of Everest via the peak’s daunting West Ridge, previously unclimbed.
Jon Krakauer • Into Thin Air
Climbing of such difficulty had never been done at such extreme altitude.
Thomas F. Hornbein • Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition
