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Image Not Available for Rock climbing is hardly a thing to be done unless one does it for pleasure and for some, there are few greater pleasures than scaling a perpendicular rock in this manner.
Rock climbing is hardly a thing to be done unless one does it for pleasure and for some, there are few greater pleasures than scaling a perpendicular rock in this manner.
Image Not Available for Rock climbing is hardly a thing to be done unless one does it for pleasure and for some, there are few greater pleasures than scaling a perpendicular rock in this manner.

Rock climbing is hardly a thing to be done unless one does it for pleasure and for some, there are few greater pleasures than scaling a perpendicular rock in this manner.

Creator Dorien Leigh
Date1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 18.9 x 17.8 cm (7 7/16 x 7 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Category
    Object number2002/5743
    LocationNot currently on display

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