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    Get a Grip
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    Get a Grip

    May 01, 2020

    After I lost the use of my fingers, my rock-climbing career seemed over. But not the adventure. I had to get back in touch — with a new sense of self, and a new sense of purpose.

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    World
    Uluru, seen at sunset from a designated viewing area earlier this year in Australia's Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. The sandstone monolith will be closed to climbers permanently Saturday, in a blow to tourists' aspirations and a boon to the aboriginal
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    Ban Will Soon Keep Climbers From Tackling Sacred Monolith In Australia

    Oct 24, 2019
    For decades, Uluru's indigenous keepers have watched as visitors tried to scale the massive rock formation that they consider holy. But that's set to change Saturday, when the ban will take effect.
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    KNPR's State of Nevada
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    Crowds Damaging Red Rock, Climbing Group Warns

    Dec 27, 2018

    A rock climbing advocacy group named Red Rock Canyon outside Las Vegas one of the most threatened climbing areas in the country.

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    Sports
    Tommy Caldwell uses "tiny razorblade edges" in the rock wall to support his body weight on El Capitan's Dawn Wall.
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    'It Looked Impossible': New Film Follows Free Climbers Up The 'Dawn Wall'

    Nov 20, 2018
    Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson were the first to free climb to the top of the southeastern face of Yosemite's El Capitan. "It's as sheer and as vertical as the side of a skyscraper," Jorgeson says.
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    Strange News
    People watch as French urban climber Alain Robert ascends Heron Tower in central London on Thursday.
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    French 'Spider-Man' Arrested After Scaling London Skyscraper Without Ropes

    Oct 26, 2018
    A man who has climbed many of the world's tallest buildings has done it again, this time in London.
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    Shots - Health News
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    How To Survive A 10,000-Foot Fall

    Aug 24, 2018
    Sometimes people who fall great distances survive. How do they get so lucky? Scientists share the secrets of an implausible safe landing.
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    Sports
    Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold pose for a portrait Sunday at the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, Calif. Within days, the pair would go on to break their own record twice, including once in under 2 hours.
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    Landmark Climb: Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell Scale El Capitan In Under 2 Hours

    Jun 07, 2018
    The feat has been compared to the four-minute mile or a two-hour marathon — "but vertically," one climber adds. Still, they beat the impossibly steep odds Wednesday in California's Yosemite Valley.
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    Ropeless Yosemite Climber Alex Honnold Now Lives In Las Vegas

    Nov 12, 2018

    You probably remember last year when a courageous solo climber scaled El Capitan in Yosemite National Park… without ropes.

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    Outdoors
    Mishaps
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    Trails and tribulations

    Feb 23, 2016

    Tight spaces, terrifying falls, broken bones — and ultimate triumph. Hold on tight as you read this digest of outdoor adventures gone sideways, told by those who lived it

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    All things to all people
    Gollem
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    Zeit bites

    Jan 25, 2016

    The director of Cockroach Theatre’s The Nether on risk-taking art.

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    Alex Honnold
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    Rock talk: A Q&A with climbing legend Alex Honnold

    Jan 11, 2016

    The iconic rock climber talks about Red Rock's best route, where his sport goes next and 'living with a certain intention'

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    The Two-Way
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    #NPRreads: Ben Carson's Memory And A 14-Year-Old Rock-Climbing Phenom

    Nov 13, 2015
    Also this week: a conversation between U.S. and Chinese sailors about pizza and wings (among other everyday topics).
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    The Two-Way
    Mount Eiger in the Swiss Alps stands at 13,025 feet and is considered one of the most difficult Alpine climbs in Europe.
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    Climber Could Become 1st Woman To Conquer 'Wall Of Death' Route

    Aug 25, 2015
    American Sasha DiGiulian is posting vertigo-inducing updates to social media as she scales the north face of Mount Eiger, an infamous Swiss peak.
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    Night climb
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    Local rocks draw international jocks for yearly festival

    Mar 30, 2015

    It was fun, food and climbing at the biggest-ever Red Rock Rendezvous

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    Notes and letters
    Stone Temple Zealots
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    Notes & Letters

    Mar 26, 2015

    Let’s think water: In a March story headlined “Real thirst,” Heidi Kyser reported on companies that bottle treated, alkalized Vegas tap water and sell it as a healthful drink, in particular the brand Real Water.

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    Onward and upward: A novice climbs at Red Rock

    Mar 06, 2015
    Here is a photo of me about to ascend Tonto, a 90-foot wall that’s about a five-minute walk from the Willow Springs Picnic Area off the Red Rock Scenic...
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