To get around on the rock, Jackson Hole Mountain Guides teaches climbing classes, and lead single day or overnight trips up into the mountains on classic climbs.
You know, the Citibank ad featuring a mountain climbing enthusiast opting to climb a rock rather than bejewel her finger with one.
But management soon realized that people were far more interested in recharging their batteries--focusing on their health, sure, but also on soft adventure activities (rock climbing, hiking, mountain biking) in the vicinity as well as spa services.
This story was told to me by Michael Moniz, avid alpine climber and CEO of Circadence, as he explored the parallels between executive onboarding and mountain climbing.
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Zdanivsky turned to boosting when his spine was crushed in a car accident in 1994, because he didn't want the injury to curb his passion for mountain climbing.
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Maybe you have one of those Dads like the Dads in pharmaceutical commercials the silver, sinewy types who go mountain-climbing, fight sharks and skydive out of blimps.
It's fun to see the Paramount logo and feel like you could start climbing that mountain, but after we've been poked and prodded by spears and swords, escaped falling masonry, admired heaving bosoms and plunged into icy depths, the novelty becomes a distraction.
Only the comedy latent in his own sour ironies distinguishes this film and indeed many of the films in his career from the grimly romantic antihumanism of Weimar-era mountain-climbing dramas.
Pa. (AP) When Mayor John Callahan talks about Bethlehem's success, he often points to Lehigh University 's picturesque campus climbing South Mountain or Moravian College 's new dorms rising from the historic district.
As I set off on my next expedition and find myself in harsh climates again, while cycling 15, 000 miles from Alaska to Chile and climbing some of the highest mountains, I will keep in mind the Mountain Rescue teams - who work in these environments, not for fun, but to save lives.
In 1994's mountain-climbing thriller Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone did most of the apparently death-defying stunts himself, while suspended by safety wires and protected by nets.
Highland Council employee Mark Phillips, 51, had fallen about 50m (164ft) while climbing in the Raeburn's Buttress area on the north face of the mountain on Monday.
Curiosity is due to turn its drill again in this mudstone for further analysis before climbing out of Yellowknife Bay and heading for the crater's big central mountain, Aeolis Mons (Mount Sharp).
Gov. Salceda suspended farming, mountain climbing and other activity within a six-kilometer radius around the volcano.
His other career -- as an adventurer -- came about when he met John Doble, the former British High Commissioner to Swaziland, who introduced him to mountain climbing and funded his first ascents.
The judge had to personally enlist the assistance of a group of schoolboys, members of a local mountain climbing club, to accompany him to a deeply wooded valley and descend into a ravine infested with black snakes and populated by lion, leopard, baboons and elephants.
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The feeder then threads another piece onto the stick and a furry mountain of animals descend upon him, snarling and climbing over each other to grab it.
After a short flight from Kathmandu to the mountain hamlet of Lukla, it took me 12 days to reach Base Camp, trekking 160km and climbing 10, 000 feet, hiking through dense forest, over a dozen suspension bridges, above the tree line and, finally, into a frozen landscape of ancient rock and glacial ice.
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