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Newspaper Article
Getting a Grip on a Clump of Molecules
2000
Overview
I am plastered against the side of a large rock, 15 feet above a patch of trampled dirt in Central Park. My fingers are wedged inside a fissure. My left toe is balanced on a protrusion about the size of a golf ball and my right toe is balanced on . . . I don't know what it's balanced on. Below me my friend, Ivan Greene, the director of climbing at Chelsea Piers, shouts encouragement. ''Smear your right foot onto the rock,'' he says helpfully, ''Twist your left hip in, stand up, and grab that giant knob just above you.'' I'm trying to ''boulder,'' a form of rock climbing that involves more lateral than vertical movement. Unlike sports climbing, the type of climbing in which you scale a wall, bouldering involves no ropes, harnesses or carabiners (hooks that connect climber to rope). All you need is a pair of climbing shoes with sticky rubber soles, a bag of chalk to powder your hands for a better grip and a willingness to fall.
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New York Times Company
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