High Drama: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of American Competition Climbing Animal Husbandry and the call of Abraham

and the call of Abraham

Includes anatomic drawings and cross-sections to illustrate muscle relationships and insertion points

Meet the man whose life-long quest to reclaim the true

A: I wanted to write stories that mirrored the books I liked to read in my childhood

High Drama: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of American Competition Climbing Animal Husbandry and the call of AbrahamOne afternoon in 1987, two renegade climbers in Berkeley, California, hatched an ambitious plan: under the cover of darkness, they would rappel down from a carefully scouted highway on ramp, gluing artificial handholds onto the load bearing concrete pillars underneath. Equipped with ingenuity, strong adhesive, and an urban guerilla attitude, Jim Thornburg and Scott Frye created a serviceable climbing wall. But what they were part of was a greater