rock climbing. the sport of climbing sheer rocky surfaces on the sides of mountains, often with the aid of special equipment. Related forms. rock climber, noun.
Wade Edwards was the son of John and Elizabeth Edwards. He died at the age of 16 in a car accident when strong winds caused his Jeep to run off a North Carolina highway in 1996. He was remembered today as news of his mother's lost battle to breast cancer swept the world. Wade Edwards (Wade.org)
Edwards married his first wife, actress Patricia Walker, in 1953. They had two children, and divorced in 1967. She appeared in the comedy All Ashore (1953), for which Edwards was one of the screenwriters. Edwards' second marriage from 1969 until his death was to Julie Andrews. Andrews had a daughter, Emma, from her previous marriage, and the couple adopted two orphans from Vietnam in the early 1970s, Amelia Leigh and Joanna Lynne.