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Article: Pass the adrenalin, please. (handicapped rock climbers, includes related article on SOAR, Shared Outdoor Adventure Recreation)
- Article from:
- Palaestra
- Article date:
- September 22, 1991
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1991 Challenge Publications Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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If skiing is like chugging a shot glass of adrenalin after every tip up the lift, rock climbing is like sipping it from a beer stein all day long. Never mind that the safety rope would easily hold a Toyota: rock climbing taps an ancient, righteous terror. It is not the kind of terror one chokes on, then spits out, but rather the kind that sours in the mouth and lingers in the back of the throat. The kind one cannot get rid of, no matter how hard one swallows. The kind of terror that some folks cannot stomach at al...and of which others cannot get enough.
Thirty-two-year-old Harold Iseksen is a confirmed adrenalin-sipper. He first tasted the sport of rock ...