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Best way to assure a long ski-mountaineering life is to learn to turn back in time. As of this writing, Mount Darwin has not yet been climbed in winter, but there was a very satisfactory first winter rappel {lower right) to its glacier, a safe retreat from a gathering storm, and a chance to try again another day. (31-33; 30 preceding)
Transition, continued. A do-it-yourself ski tow was discovered one day on the approach to Sawtooth Ridge, part of Yosemite's northern boundary. Ski there just once, look at that superb granite, feel it, test it, look out from its sides and down from its top, and you will know why a mountaineer is. II Look the world over for more granite like that. You'll find it on the Grepon, in France, but not on the mainmast of Shiprock, in New Mexico. But you'll still find things you were looking for as you climb there. (Note: See chapters 15-17 before looking.) (34-37) |
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