She had an operation to remove a tumour on her kidneys, and then in the same year her 14-year-old son David punctured his femoral artery when climbing an iron-spiked fence at his step-grandparents' home, and died.
To pass the time we tracked insects as they climbed the iron window grates.
Visitors can climb an iron spiral staircase in one of the old observation towers for a view over the park and out to sea.
People filled their plates, walked out onto a porch and then climbed an iron ladder to the roof, where benches and chairs sat among sculptures of branches.
I paused to breathe when I reached the wooden platform beside the bells, then climbed two iron ladders to the roof.
A young woman climbed the iron fence to the university grounds and shouted out anti-American slogans, while police armed with bamboo sticks surrounded the protesters.
Three nights later, as part of a $25-a-plate 25-a-plate 25-a-plateeir own legal bills, a group of mostly white visual artists, called the Artists Alliance, climbed the iron latticework stairwell and transformed the fourto floor into an exhibition of their payntheir and sculptures.
I had slung two cameras over my back and climbed the iron rungs to the top of a hopper car.
When a lion man has finished rigging a line, he removes all the iron climbing spikes from the pole and takes them with him, so that nobody else will be able to work there.
And he hadn't lied: in a minute more we were climbing the lurid iron steps to his second-floor flat, every step wet and slick and heavy with the possibility of a lethal accident.
Do some more long, boring training: Now back in Camelot, wield your full iron, climbing boots, amulet of strength, adamant scimitar, and Combat Bracelet.
