Luck may take you up to the head of the curve, but you can be a happy storyteller earning a decent wage without having to climb up that steep slope to the top.

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Climbers head out from the BridgeClimb storefront at the foot of the bridge, proceed along a catwalk under the highway, climb several ladders and then walk up the curved span to the top.

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Again, we are not going to be able to get to the top of that mountain unless we can start and continue to climb up it from the base.

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The rack railway that winds its way up makes its final climb inside the mountain, leaving passengers to emerge blinking onto the snowfield at the top, where the igloo village takes shape every winter.

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