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HowStuffWorks "How Rock Climbing Works"

Rock climbing involves strength, control and finesse. Using the muscles in your arms and legs to pull yourself up a sheer rock face takes strength­ and control. Using your brain to place your hands and feet so that your muscles can do their job -- that's finesse.

Rock climbing is a little like skydiving . Both rock climbing and skydiving have an element of danger. Both are sports where people participate mostly for their own personal satisfaction -- these sports do not offer much for spectators­. And both are sports where potential participants either "get it" or they don't. In skydiving, either you are excited about leaping out of a plane into the abyss, or you aren't. In rock climbing, either you are excited about scaling a vertical piece of stone, or you aren't.

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Rock climbing?!?!?!?

okay so I just got back from a trip to Canada where I went rock climbing for the first time in a town called Squamish. It was awesome! It sucks though because I live in Nebraska where there are pretty much no rock climbing places except crappy indoor


Most rock climbing in South Dakota will be in the Black Hills. There are quite a few places that do beginning rock climbing. I've been on one near Mt. Rushmore that was great.

Rock Climbing - Bookshelf

Rock climbing, mastering basic skills
301 pages
Rock climbing, mastering basic skills

Craig Luebben has taught rock climbing basics to hundreds of clients and has conducted self-rescue clinics across the U.S. Here he presents the most common foot ...


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