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Saturday, October 01, 2005

The F Word

Tom Goldstein, the mostly non-climbing brother of my regular partner Dave, has hung around enough crags to learn all he needs to know about climbing. One day, observing a particularly arduous and vocal ascent, he told Dave: "If the word 'fuck' didn't exist, climbers would have had to invent it." Amen, brother.

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