"Bill Tuthill" wrote in message ...
Dave Manby wrote:

The companion piece "The Tahiti Room" is the answer and through
the introduction to the reader of the sport of underwater climbing in
rivers tells how enjoyment of a sport can become a pursuit of dreams and
then a dangerous single-minded fanaticism.

You mean they downclimb from the waterline using snorkeling equipment?

Hmm, that would be underwater rappelling. I bet they climb horizontally,
with technical climbing gear and scuba tanks, along the riverbed upstream
against the current. I want to know when they know they have summitted.

--riverman