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...Ledyard, the trip wasn’t entirely a failure. In Alaska, he encountered an outpost of Russian traders who introduced him to otter furs, which would become his own lifelong obsession. When the ships later sailed to China, Ledyard discovered that otter furs fetched a fortune?...
...Alaska Senator Ted Stevens is seeking to apply the same decency standards the FCC applies to network broadcast television to cable television. To which many erudite, knowledgeable people are responding, 'F___ that guy.' That was a quote from Socrates...
...Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) once drew international fame for impressive expeditions that included leading the United States Army’s 10th Mountain Division in the 1940s, climbing in the Himalayas in the 1950s, and making first ascents of certain mountains in the Canadian Rockies, the Yukon, and Alaska...
...club has published dozens of issues of the “Harvard Mountaineering” journal since 1927, which contain accounts and pictures from various trips the club has taken to locations like the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alaska, and the Himalayas...
...since the building of the Alaska oil pipeline has a construction project posed more daunting challenges. In parts of the desert where daytime temperatures reach a scorching 120 F, work shifts began under lights at midnight, and liquid nitrogen was used to cool some of the 2.1 million cu. yds. of concrete poured. To allay environmental concerns, engineers built walkways across parts of the canals for the use of cattle and mule deer, and aqueduct sides were deliberately made rough to lend footing for smaller animals that might climb down for a drink. Human visitors are not welcome...