Mo Anthoine described his drive to perform this activity as “feeding the rat,” a phrase that titles a study by his companion Al Alvarez. A history of this activity by the ex-Nazi Heinrich Harrer (-5[2])described a seemingly-intractable problem nicknamed the “murder wall.” The linguist Constant incompetently performs this activity for the Rum Doodle Committee in a satirical novel by W. E. Bowman. Michael (-5[1])Ransom performs this activity in a play (-5[1])that included the earliest version of (*) “Funeral Blues,” and was (-5[1])co-written by Isherwood (10[1])and Auden. (10[1])Anatoli Boukreev’s heroism is highlighted in a 1997 (-5[1])bestseller (10[2])about the deaths of eight (-5[1])performers of this activity in (10[1]-5[1])a blizzard (10[1])on the South Col (10[1])and North Face approaches. Jon Krakauer’s (10[1])Into Thin Air is (10[1])about, (10[1])for 10 points, what outdoor activity? ■END■