After about five years of climbing, I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall.

经过大约五年的攀登训练，我发现自己能爬到约塞米蒂山谷的一堵高墙上。

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I have an intellectual appreciation that mountain - climbing is risky, but I 've got to tell myself after 20 years of climbing I' m still alive.

在理智上，我很清楚登山运动是危险的，但是我不得不告诉自己，爬了20年山我仍然健在。

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With years of economic growth in the 10 percent range, China has been rapidly climbing the ranks of top economies, surpassing France, Britain and Germany before toppling Japan.

多年来，中国经济增长保持在10%左右，中国迅速超越其他世界经济大国，中国经济在超越日本之前，已经超越法国、英国和德国。

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Then followed years of Himalayan trekking and rock climbing.

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Eight years ago he fell out of a tree climbing after his 4-year-old son and broke his neck.

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To be sure, the average age of a Facebook user is climbing, to 38 years old last year, from 33 years old in 2009.

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