| bbowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Aug 22 05:20PM On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 18:46:35 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > 2. A prusik ["PRUSS-ik"; spell it] is a type of what? Supposedly > it was invented around 1931 by an Austrian mountaineer of the same > name. It's a knot > used for connecting and disconnecting mountaineering equipment? It is > also widely used in other situations, with larger-sized types used > even to connect hot-air balloons to the basket. Caribeener > activities such as caving and canyoning) for descending a vertical > drop by using a rope, often with other equipment such as a harness > and a device to play out the rope? rappelling > 5. What technique or action is involved in a glissade ["gliss-AD" > or "gliss-AID"]? Moving sideways across a sheer face > 6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks > so that it can act as an anchor? piton > ascent of Mt. Everest in June 1924. They are known to have come > within 800 feet of the summit, leading to ongoing speculation about > whether they got there. One of their bodies was found in 1999. Mallory > 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund > Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest? 1956 > later named after him? It is not, as was thought at the time, the > tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is 13,745 feet or almost > 4,200 m high. Zebulon Pike |
| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Aug 22 03:48PM -0700 On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 9:46:41 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > I did not write either of these rounds. Nor did I. > Alone and palely loitering? > What does ail him, or rather *who*, according to John Keats? > The title of the poem gives your answer. Nightingale > activities such as caving and canyoning) for descending a > vertical drop by using a rope, often with other equipment such > as a harness and a device to play out the rope? Abseiling > 7. Give either of the two terms for loose, broken rock at the > bottoms of cliffs, volcanoes, and valleys. Which term applies > in a given situation depends on the size of the rock. Scree > in 1999. > 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund > Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest? 1953 > that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought > at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is > 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high. McClellan cheers, calvin |
| Pete <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Aug 23 06:53AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:cP2dnTMoB_nGoCfKnZ2dnUU7- > death. After all, a mere friend isn't as important as a wife, > is he? Name this play from 1955, in which love goes wrong for > pretty much everybody. Splendor in the Grass > Christopher Plummer won a Tony, and José Ferrer won an Oscar, > each for portraying which hero, originally of an 1897 play of > the same name, who reveals his love only as he is dying? Cyrano de Bergerac > 2. A prusik ["PRUSS-ik"; spell it] is a type of what? Supposedly > it was invented around 1931 by an Austrian mountaineer of the > same name. Boot > activities such as caving and canyoning) for descending a > vertical drop by using a rope, often with other equipment such > as a harness and a device to play out the rope? Belaying > or "gliss-AID"]? > 6. What is the metal spike driven into a crack or seam in rocks > so that it can act as an anchor? Peton > 7. Give either of the two terms for loose, broken rock at the > bottoms of cliffs, volcanoes, and valleys. Which term applies > in a given situation depends on the size of the rock. Slurry > in 1999. > 9. Within one year, in what year did Tenzing Norgay and Edmund > Hillary make the first recorded ascent to the summit of Everest? 1954 > that was later named after him? It is not, as was thought > at the time, the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it is > 13,745 feet or almost 4,200 m high. Pete Gayde |
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