Climbing at the Speed of Soul article on Dean Potter | Outside Online Dean Potter punches a button on a plastic wristwatch looped around his climbing harness. His partner, Tim O'Neill, leaps at the rock before him, jamming freshly taped fingers into a slender crack. Above them soars the great granite parabola of the most famous big-wall route in Yosemite Valley—or, for that matter, the world: The Nose of El Capitan. At just under 3,000 vertical feet, with 36 pitches, The Nose requires three harrowing pendulum swings and the negotiation of a hair-raising crux section known as the Great Roof—an overhanging shelf 2,000 feet off the deck, with a crack at the back so narrow that neither the towering Potter nor the diminutive O'Neill can wedge his fingers into it. in Fitness > Climbingwith big-wallclimbclimbingcrackdandeanfamousfitnessgranitejellylifestyleosmanpotterreligionrock Note: A fascinating profile of one of the world's greatest speed climbers Dean Potter. Interesting to read about his spiritual aspirations, Dan Osman, frost, and another guy I forget the name of. An article about Osman is: http://outside.away.com/magazine/0499/9904terminal.html
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Erik Friedlander - Overview - allmusic.com Cellist Erik Friedlander grew up exposed to R&B and jazz since his father photographed many album covers for Atlantic during the '50s and '60s. During his childhood and high school years, Friedlander was involved in chamber groups, his school orchestra, and a local rock band. He enrolled at Columbia University in 1978 to pursue a music degree, but it wasn't until a year later, upon hearing and speaking with bassist Harvie Swartz, that Friedlander decided to become a professional musician. Shortly thereafter, he joined Swartz's quintet, and the group released Underneath It All on Gramavision. Cellist <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/erik-friedlander-p77811">Erik Friedlander</a> grew up exposed to R&B and jazz since his father … in Lifestyle > Musicwith bandcellistchambererikfriedlanderjazzlocalorchestrarock
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