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3 Easy Steps to Becoming a BackCountry Hero
Have you thought about helping to protect wildlife or wild flowers, but you don’t know how? Or maybe you want to protect your favorite camping site or that cool little stream nobody else knows about? Making a difference in the backcountry is easy...
A Woman's True Confession: I Finally Understand the Male Obsession with Football...
Football season is here, which means that for the next several weeks - 90% of the male population of the US will spend an enormous amount of their "free time" watching games on TV (the bigger the screen, the better), attending football games...
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The primary reason we need to eat food is to provide fuel for the body. This fuel comes from the breakdown of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. To explain it simply, food is broken down to produce energy, and it takes many chemical processes for...
Seven Tips For A Long And Healthy Life
As good as modern medical technology is, it can never save you
from the problems caused by a life style that is unhealthy.
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World Series In Russia - Huh? What?
As we watch the Astros choke or White Sox perform valiantly depending on your point of view, I am reminded of my baseball experience in Russia.
World Series
I always find it interesting that most of our professional sports call the championship...
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WHAT MAKES AN ICE CLIMBER?
WHAT MAKES AN ICE CLIMBER?
Ice climbing is not for the faint at heart. This exhilarating and dangerous sport takes participants into some of nature's fiercest and most beautiful elements and requires strength, stamina and the willingness to stay outside for long periods of time in below-freezing weather. Many ice climbers describe the experience as electrifying and exhilarating.
The danger involved in scaling vertical cascades of ice can create an amazing adrenaline rush, and reaching the top of a difficult and steep ice or snow formation can leave a climber with a tremendous sense of personal achievement.
Ice climbing often is done in a surreal ice world of frozen waterfalls, huge icicles and compacted snow slides. Ice climbers, even those one-day experimenters, need to have a basic level of physical fitness. I
ce climbing requires brute force and good technique, as climbers uses ice picks and crampons, which are sharp steel claws that attach to boots, to make their way up the ice. Many climbing schools offer one-day excursions that usually involve shorter climbs up a gentle slope.
Experienced climbers, however, will
ascend vertical and sometimes overhanging ice walls, which requires excellent physical conditioning, stamina, courage and technique. Ice climbing can be done on all levels, from one-day climbs to a lifetime pursuit.
For those who want a one-time thrill, it is recommended that they hire a guide or take a class on the basics, then go with more experienced climbers. Climbing schools offer one-day classes, but it is recommended that beginners take two- or three-day classes so that they can spend adequate time learning climbing techniques before attempting a climb.
Classes and guides can cost several hundred dollars, and they are offered at many popular ice-climbing sites. Rock climbing experience is helpful, but some short ice-climbing excursions will take people with no experience. For those who are serious about the sport, then you can read more about it at About the Author
Ashley Barnard is an experienced ice climber, and has been ice climbing around the world for the past 15 years, his resent ventures have taken him into the artic to find more exposed icy locations for ever looking for that ultimate ice climb
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