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A Brief History of People Trying to Be Spider-Man
A 19-year-old scaled NYC’s Trump Tower Wednesday. The outlaw grandfathers of “buildering” would not be impressed.
The Gspaltenhorn was never enough for Geoffrey Winthrop Young.
That was one of the many mighty Alpine peaks that Young, a notorious mountaineer, conquered during his lifetime. But he always wanted more. Eventually, he turned his sport toward the next-best thing: the structures around him at Cambridge University.