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Article: Climbing Finger Rock.
- Article from:
- Esquire
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
- Author:
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Mother had breast cancer. Son scaled mountains. "You only go around once," she said, and maybe not all that long."
IN THE DOZEN OR SO YEARS that I have been climbing, my mother has had approximately two things to say about the subject: Don't do it and Oh no you're not. The former might apply to a thousand-foot cliff, the latter to a twenty-thousand-foot peak. Being a good, dependable son, I never listened. Being a good mother, she wasn't surprised. I kept climbing, and after a while she seemed to get used to the idea that I was happiest while hanging off the side of a big chunk of rock. Even so, I never expected to get the kind of messages from her I began ...
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