31. McKnight was an avid outdoors enthusiast, a windsurfer, road biker, backpacker and mountain climber. 32. Mike Dickerman, a friend of the Watermans who also writes about the New England outdoors, said the couple were avid mountain climbers. 33. Mountain climbers have a name for situations where things go horribly amiss, yet everyone makes it safely back down to terra firma. 34. Mountain climbers have to look elsewhere for information, however. 35. Mountain climbers are a stoic lot. 36. Mountain climbers share the same excitement after scaling Mount Everest. 37. Mountain climbers also waste a lot of oxygen each time they exhale. 38. Nature must abhor mountain climbers. 39. Mountain climber and documentarian Ridgeway takes readers on a trek from the foot of the great mountain to the sea while examining the legacy of colonialism. 40. No one would dispute the athletic abilities of a triathlete or a true mountain climber. |