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• Q: Why do mountain climbers rope themselves together?
  A: To prevent the sensible ones from going home....
• Mountain climbers do it abysmally.
• Mountain Climbers do it on the rocks.
• water knot: rope configuration used by sea cliff climbers who tend to fall a lot.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• handhold: what two climbers do during long bivouacs on narrow ledges.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...