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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated August 27, 1963 partially reads, "James L. Gorin's most difficult rock climbing expedition was a few years ago up the 1,000-foot vertical cliff on the north face of Nez Perce in the Grand Tetons. 'The biggest hazard,' said the San Fernando owner of a television repair and sales shop,' was the rocks that fell from areas above us as we climbed...Gorin's 'biggest hazard' in this particular venture might be termed minor to our standards: Gorin has only one leg. 'I lost it when I was six,' said Gorin. 'But that didn't stop me. I did everything...' One day in 1941, Gorin went out hiking and watched rock climbers near Mt. Wilson. 'There's something you ought to be doing,' a friend told him. 'So I got to rock climbing...It was a natural for me. I thoroughly enjoy it."
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