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• artificial climbing: knack of appearing to climb by talking about it.
  his technique is best employed far from actual climbing areas, which tend to be hazardous....
• Mountaineers do it with ropes.
• boot-ax belay: highly developed technique for ruining an ice ax, destroying a rope, and shortening a climbing day.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• handhold: what two climbers do during long bivouacs on narrow ledges.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli
• Marv Albert: He's really showing us what a man with a cannon in his chest can do.
• Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. Benjamin Disraeli
• hold: what you try to do when you wake at 4am after having overrehydrated yourself.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...