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invented a new sport - abre-seiling (you work it out) - in which we get as high
as we can up a tree (we have their grandmother's handy beech wood to play in)
and then shimmy down; and then prusik, Kleimheist, whatever, back up. The
picture above shows Laura in Chamonix, practising the black art. (Truth to
tell, she doesn't like it much.)
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Gear does fail, safety is paramount and
that step backwards into space is gut-wrenching. I once did a 200 foot vertical
cliff as smooth as a baby's bottom in North Devon just for the hell of it. The
'step-off' was into space with the sea behind. Awesome.
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