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1) Take
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In search of her missing father, Cara and her ex-boyfriend Nat venture into the Cascade Mountains, up a harrowing rock face, and navigate through time as they explore the impact of Pearl Harbor and its Japanese Incarceration Camps, Cara's family, and each other.
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2024.
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While hunting doves in North Carolina, Rocky becomes ill. Carlos and Kathleen stay in camp with him while Sami and Seb continue their hunt. When a stream bank gives way and Seb is injured in a fall, Sami manages to get him up out of the stream bed but then has to get him back to camp.
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c2003
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Mental training is scarcely covered in the climbing literature, yet it is as important to performance as strength, flexibility, and technique. In his unique approach to mental training, Arno Ilgner draws essential elements from the rich "warrior" literature, as well as from sports psychology, and combines these with his extensive climbing experience to create The Warrior's Way ®.
• Here is a comprehensive program for learning how to focus your...
8) Free climb
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[2009]
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Amir's new friend refuses to learn the right way to climb, and soon finds himself in danger.
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[2016]
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High interest, edgy activities fill the pages of Nailed It! Extreme Rock Climbing. The carefully written, considerate text will hold the readers' interest and allow for successful mastery and comprehension. Written in the high-low format, this series has a HIGH interest level to appeal to a more mature audience but maintains a LOW level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. Extreme Rock Climbing presents the thrills and...
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2018.
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"Archaeologist Chuck Bender arrives with his family in Yosemite Valley to study the 150-year-old murders of a pair of gold prospectors in the midst of preparations for the annual Yosemite Slam rock-climbing competition and a reunion with his old climbing buddies. The trip quickly turns threatening when one climber never shows up, climbing equipment fails, and Chuck and his wife, Janelle Ortega, are suspected in the shocking, present-day death of one...
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"This is going to be Dylan’s big break. Her friend Clay, a geology student, has discovered an untouched cliff face in the Kentucky wilderness, and she is going to be the first person to climb it. Together with Clay, his research assistant Sylvia, and Dylan’s boyfriend Luke, she is going to document her achievement on Instagram and finally cement her place as the next rising star in rock climbing. Seven months later, three bodies are discovered...
13) Rock climbing
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"Provides information about leisure activities that can be enjoyed in nature. Contains photos, charts, and healthy eating and exercise tips that encourage readers to get outdoors and enjoy rock climbing"--Provided by publisher.
14) Rock climbing
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Discusses the skills and equipment need for rock climbing, climbing techniques, safety concerns, and places to climb.
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Rock Climbing Colorado is the only guide available that covers all the major climbing areas in the Centennial State, with routes ranging from 5.0 to 5.14-including the big cliffs and faces of Rocky Mountain National Park, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and the smaller crags and outcrops of Pikes Peak, Boulder, Rifle, Shelf Road, and Eleven Mile Canyon. In all thirty-seven areas covered, the book provides first-hand overviews and climbing histories,...
18) Free solo
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Despite attempts by his friends, loved ones and his new girlfriend to dissuade him from this dangerous feat, Alex Honnold, the worlds most accomplished free soloist climber, prepares mentally and physically for his most daring adventure to date: scaling the 3200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite without a rope or safety gear. If he succeeds, it will mark the largest wall he, or anyone else, for that matter, has ascended without any kind of equipment.
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[2016]
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"Before the first free ascent of the Dawn Wall on El Capitan captivated the world, a rag-tag group of innovators build the sport of modern American rock climbing from a makeshift home base in Yosemite's Camp 4. Photographer Glen Denny was a key figure in that Golden Age of climbing, capturing pioneering feats on camera while tackling challenging ascents himself. Now, in prose both exhilarating and poignant, he gives us true tales of colorful characters...
20) Rock climbing
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1996.
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Describes the history, equipment, and contemporary practice of rock climbing.