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from the climb and a description of what it
was like and what they had to go through
and how he was afraid at times and had to
push through and tell himself to keep going
in order to get to where he wanted to go.”

Culver, the second oldest of nine chil-

dren, self-described adventurer who
lett his law and medicine studies at the
University-of B.C. in 1974 to start his‘own
river rafting company, Whitewater
Adventures. He expanded jato whale
watching, but eventually took up mountain
climbing.

Before taking on Everest, he climbed

Dan Culver:
climbed
Everest in 1990.

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part in Antarctica, Mt. Vinson.

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