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• Mountaineers do it showing excellent technique on the peak.
• handhold: what two climbers do during long bivouacs on narrow ledges.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• hold: what you try to do when you wake at 4am after having overrehydrated yourself.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• Let me show you the ropes..and the whips and the chains and the handcuffs...
• heading: going to the latrine. -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982
• Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine. -- Basho
• Bound with cords and ropes, Shut in between thorn-hedged prison wall
  For three years one does not find the way. Misfortune....
• The proof that IBM didn't invent the car is that it has a steering wheel and an accelerator instead of spurs and ropes, to be compatible with a horse.
  -- Jac Goudsmi...