Thu Apr 21, 5:24 pm ET
‘Free-climbers’ defy death, gravity
By Chris Lehmann
The motto for the next generation of extreme-climbers who scale the forbidding peaks of Yosemite National Park in California may as well be this: Mountaineering tools are for wusses. So-called free-climbers pit themselves against the swooping, protruding faces of Yosemite using little more than their own chalked-hands-on-rock agility.
More here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110421/ts_yblog_thelookout/free-climbers-defy-death-gravity
The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.