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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20030907
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CLIMB HIGH, PARTY LOW: "You seem very casual," Gustave Flaubert wrote to fellow novelist (and fellow trust-funder) Ivan Turgenev in 1863, "but you have great skill." He was talking about good writers making the difficult look easy, but the line can also describe how good climbers move. Instead of shaping words with their hands, they use them to draw out a kind of art from gravity, anticipation and effort. On Saturday, many good climbers will be in action in Sterling for Sportrock's Climbing and Music Festival, which starts at noon and goes to midnight. There will be a climbing triathlon (for ...

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