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Berry is an avid mountain climber whose most recent ascent was to the peak of Mount Darwin in the Evolution Range in the High Sierra of Central California. “The trouble with Mount Darwin is that it’s a technical climb,” he says. “I mean, there are parts where if you fall...
...Mountain climbers are notoriously individualistic and determined folk, and Phillip Stölzl’s “North Face,” which opens this Friday at the Kendall Square Cinema, provides a rare glimpse into their rugged characters. What drives them to do what they do? Or, as the film asks in its opening sequence, “Why would anyone want to climb that?” And yet the irresistible impulse of the mountaineer is to overcome the mountain and to discipline those tempting inner voices that seductively implore the climber to stay below...
...avid rock climber, rower, and chess player, former Cabot House resident and aspiring arborist M. Brooke Halsey ’06 will be remembered by friends and family as a humble “wiry tree spirit” with a profound sense of humor...
...That’s the beauty of cycling,” Hong says. “People of all different body types can still do well. I found my strength and niche as a climber and am just focusing on that to hopefully become one of the best climbers in the country...
...Campbell, who himself has climbed four Himalayan peaks, says he's worried for everyone involved: "Fabrizio is putting himself at great risk. Pérez, if he's a strong young climber, might survive. But someone who has been trapped at 6,000 meters for five or six nights is probably slowly dying." (See pictures of triumph and tragedy on the world's highest mountain, Everest...