Call it sixty degrees of separation. I’ve finally found her - the person I’m least likely to meet, ever. If you’re one of these “speed climbers,” have a good life up there, and I’ll do the same down here. I figure I got my adrenalin rush for the year just watching a video clip of what these folks do - continue at your own risk: 
Tatyana Ruiga, the 2006 World Cup speed climbing winner, conducts a master class of climbing for servicemen of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry in the Stolby national park outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk November 13, 2006. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

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