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Editor's Note: Those longtime fans of alpinist.com all recognize one name: Schooner, the detritus of the Alpinist community. With a hearty reminder to "keep it positive" in alpinist.com comments, one of our interns took the liberty to fabricate the following interview. Enjoy. There is a person in the climbing world, a vigilante really, who has for some time kept alpinist.com looking over its shoulder. Schooner, the username of an individual who has in mere words ended the careers of climbers and ...
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Editor's Note: Our reader who posted this really should get to know Cory Richards (if your Issue 18 didn't burn, check out Cory's short piece "Climbing Couture"). My passion for climbing began when I saw a photo from an old guidebook of a climber in zebra print tights. He might have been wearing a tangerine muscle tank as well but that is beside the point. I realized then that climbers with their wide-fold bandanas, and curious names for cliffs, the tinkle of their multi-colored racks, and their slim ...
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W hy, I wonder, would someone unicycle? Furthermore, why would someone ride down a 5.5 on a unicycle--a new sport called municycling? www.youtube.com . Then, on top of that, why municycle from Lhasa, Tibet to Kathmandu, Nepal like some one-wheeled Carmen Sandiego circus sideshow? Well, that is exactly what "no-hands, dare-devil" Steve Colligan likes to do for fun (needless to say, Steve is a Brit; indeed municycling was invented by the English). At least he's leveraging his national heritage of inanity for
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