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	<title>Indy Telecom &#38; Industrial Media &#187; Mountaineering</title>
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	<description>Would you like fries with that?</description>
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		<title>Climbing Chair</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2008/04/20/climbing-chair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to post about this for a while, but here is a picture of a chair that I took at a mountaineering equipment store in Boulder, CO a while ago. The chair is entirely made out of climbing equipment &#8211; belay devices, ropes, ice-axes etc. You could even sit on it, and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climbers should get stipends for keeping the risk-taking gene pool alive</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2008/04/12/climbers-should-get-stipends-for-keeping-the-risk-taking-gene-pool-alive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2008/04/12/climbers-should-get-stipends-for-keeping-the-risk-taking-gene-pool-alive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conrad Anker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading the National Geographic&#8217;s Adventure magazine for May 2008, which had a fantastic article on the legendary mountaineer Conrad Anker.
 
I found this wonderful thread at the end, which I thought captured my thoughts on climbing quite beautifully:
&#8220;What we do as certified risk takers&#8230;.&#8221; The sentence trails off unfinished, but then Anker picks [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sir Edmund Hillary</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2008/01/17/sir-edmund-hillary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mountaineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climbing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edumnd Hillary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Step]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Everest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sagarmatha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Edmund Hillary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tenzing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Sir Edmund Hillary
July 20, 1919 – January 11, 2008
Last week, one of the greatest explorers and adventurers of our time, Sir Edmund Hillary passed away.
In an age without goretex and spring-loaded cams, he and Tenzing Norgay managed to climb Everest against all odds.
As a mountaineer, I am still in awe of the climbs that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Tent</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2007/08/02/new-tent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2007/08/02/new-tent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mountaineering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After spending my time sleeping in bivy sacks on my climbing trips, I finally decided to get myself a cheap-but-good tent for regular short climbs.
It&#8217;s a 7&#215;7 foot Swiss Gear three-person, three-season dome tent. I do need to get some soft-shell spray-on to waterproof the tent before I take it out.
And the moment I got [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ice Climbing in Loch Vale</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2007/02/12/ice-climbing-in-loch-vale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2007/02/12/ice-climbing-in-loch-vale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountaineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ice-climbing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karthik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loch-Vale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mixed-climbing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After having a very busy two weeks, I decided to unwind a little on Sunday and went to Loch Vale (~10,160 ft) to do some ice-climbing.
There were four of us, Steve, Constance, Jeff and I. Steve was our guide and Constance and Jeff were doing mostly mixed climbing while I was doing mostly ice. It [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Coffee, Tee or Me?</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2006/11/19/coffee-tee-or-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2006/11/19/coffee-tee-or-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a tee-shirt that was made with a picture of me climbing &#8212; the blurred part on the top left is the name of the project, and the blurred part on the bottom left is the name of the company.  

The pictures is from the series of pictures taken during one of my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>More Climbing in the El Dorado Canyon</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2006/10/23/more-climbing-in-the-el-dorado-canyon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2006/10/23/more-climbing-in-the-el-dorado-canyon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mountaineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rock-climbing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, just a week after my climbing at the Eldo Canyon, I decided to head back there  this Sunday with Roy from CMS.
Barring an incident when I almost climbed over a stray boulder that would have fallen on my left foot sending me sprawling down a few hundred feet to the rocks and the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>Climbing in the El Dorado Canyon</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2006/10/15/climbing-in-the-el-dorado-canyon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2006/10/15/climbing-in-the-el-dorado-canyon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountaineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rock-climbing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in Denver on a business trip, and I get one day off &#8212; and what do I do on that one day?
I spend 8 hours today climbing in the El Dorado Canyon in Boulder, Colorado. I went with Roy Legget from CMS, and we had a great time doing some fun climbing. There were [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Colorado Mountain School</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2006/10/10/colorado-mountain-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2006/10/10/colorado-mountain-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mountaineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rock-climbing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the lack of updates, folks. I&#8217;m out here in Denver on a business trip (supposedly; the real reason is the mountains, of course).
Fortunately, Denver has beautiful weather. It has been hovering around the 40s, with mild showers and winds. There is something wonderful about nice, cool weather, feeling the chill winds, mild frost [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Snow and Ice Climbing in the Cascade &amp; Alaska Ranges</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2006/09/29/snow-and-ice-climbing-in-the-cascade-alaska-ranges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2006/09/29/snow-and-ice-climbing-in-the-cascade-alaska-ranges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountaineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ice-climbing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m planning a trip out to either the Cascades in Washington or to Alaska Range sometime next spring or summer to do some mountaineering, and I&#8217;m looking for interested and potential climbing partners.

At the moment, the plan is to go out there and climb with some climbing buddies that I used to climb with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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