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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Keith Ridler / The Bulletin
August 9, 2001
Bob Speik was in his early 40s when he climbed his first mountain peak.
"It was a great view, but I wondered how in the heck I was ever going to get down," he recalls.
That's when he was offered a rope for the descent, which he gladly accepted.
The coiled mountaineer's rope, he later....
