Ask Adam Booth what gets his adrenaline pumping and he'll tell you: pitching a tent in Antarctica at sunset.
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She rushes over to see the images, her happy face flickering off and her eyebrows pitching a tent of anxiety.
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In solidarity with his wife, Ratcliffe also held a hunger strike outside the Iranian Embassy in London after pitching a tent outside to protest her continued detention.
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Carrie also tells us some would-be campers have even tried pitching a tent right in her front yard, which she quickly put a stop to as well.
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It has been suggested "pitching a tent" may be a mechanism for alerting men of their full overnight bladder, as it often disappears after emptying the bladder in the morning.
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Full coverage of Top States 22.32 New Jersey is known as the Garden State, and if you're content with pitching a tent and living in the garden, you'll probably be able to afford it pretty well.
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Afif Jameel, a soldier from Taiz, a city in southwest Yemen, who said his age was about 21 or 22, said he was pitching a tent in captured territory when a land mine took off both his legs below the knees.
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Design-forward boutique hotels offer access to nature that doesn't require pitching a tent in the wilderness, and a clutch of remarkably good restaurants — serving fresh-caught Baltic fish and all manner of organic locally grown vegetables — show off the bounty of the surrounding farmland.
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The film features a fox and a horse (a person in a fox costume and two people in a pantomime horse-style outfit) wandering English fields with suitcases and later pitching a tent. Adrian Searle found it obscure, lacking either in drama or pathos, comparing it unfavourably to the work of Matthew Barney, Paul McCarthy, and Peter Fischli & David Weiss.
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Building on Shipton's experience, the Genevans reached the head of the Western Cwm and climbed the huge face above to the desolate, wind-swept plateau of the South Col. Three Swiss climbers and the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay continued towards the summit, pitching a tent at 8,400 meters. Two returned, leaving Tenzing and Lambert, who had become firm friends, to make a summit attempt. High altitude mountaineering in 1952 was still in its infancy.
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The Liberal Party of Canada won a majority government in the 1974 election, and Whiteway entered parliament as a member of the official opposition. He was on the right-wing of his party, and opposed abortion, supported capital punishment, and spoke against federal funding for Planned Parenthood. On one occasion, he suggested that danger to a woman's health should be removed as permissible grounds for abortion. He also gained some notoriety for pitching a tent on Parliament Hill to protest a post office closing in his riding.
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The previous year Eric Shipton's British-New Zealand reconnaissance had climbed the Khumbu Icefall and reached the elusive Western Cwm, proving that Everest could be climbed from Nepal. Unfortunately for the British, who had enjoyed exclusive access to the mountain for 21 years, the Nepal government gave the 1952 permit to the Swiss. Building on Shipton's experience, the Genevans reached the head of the Western Cwm and climbed the huge face above to the desolate, wind-swept plateau of the South Col. Three Swiss climbers and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay continued towards the summit, pitching a tent at 8,400m.
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Near base camp the Abruzzi Ridge appeared to be a very difficult climb on mixed rock, ice and snow, continuously steep for over up to a shoulder at about . Above this the summit pyramid could be glimpsed where there was a hanging glacier threatening both the northeast and Abruzzi ridges. On June 28 Petzoldt and House favored attempting the Abruzzi Ridge whereas Houston and Burdsall preferred investigating the northeast ridge further. On the Abruzzi Ridge it was difficult to find anywhere at all suitable for pitching a tent until on July 2 Petzoldt found a small saddle point hidden away but suitable for several tents.
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