If there is a mountain that seems too difficult to climb or an adventure sport that seems too challenging, an amputee somewhere in the world will find a way to compete in it - and complete it.

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Again, we are not going to be able to get to the top of that mountain unless we can start and continue to climb up it from the base.

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The rack railway that winds its way up makes its final climb inside the mountain, leaving passengers to emerge blinking onto the snowfield at the top, where the igloo village takes shape every winter.

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Liberal Democrat work and pensions spokesman Jenny Willott said the new bill was a "frank admission that after 11 years, this government still has a mountain to climb on welfare reform".

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While that remains true, any new Tory leader will have a high mountain to climb.

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Curiosity will climb at least a small portion of this mountain, which is composed of layers of rock that have built up over time.

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We explained that, on this occasion, we had not come to help her but to climb the mountain at the head of the valley.

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In the eighth expedition he went as a government liaison officer with the Swiss expedition to "study the mountain" hoping that this attempt too would fail so that he could be the first person to climb one of the tallest mountains in the world.

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