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...will take your breath away." Not that there could have been anything that would have inspired tourism then. As overworked medical officials covered in chemical-warfare gear raced to the next hot spot, multinationals were evacuating staff, and international trade fairs were being rescheduled. "It was really scary," recalls Cliff Wallace, managing director of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, which is back to its normal slew of shows...
This fall the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service are due to release a long-awaited policy on where to allow bolting--the practice of drilling bolts into cliff faces to which climbers attach safety ropes. Other contentious issues include protecting ancient rock art, preventing degradation of the base areas around climbing cliffs and minimizing interference with wildlife, such as nesting raptors. Even the chalk that climbers put on their hands to get a better grip can be a problem. Often it leaves a smudgy trail on rock faces, resistant even to rain...
...preparing for a two-day, 1,100-ft. climb last week on Yosemite's Washington Column. He proudly showed off a device that climbers are adopting to reduce an unpleasant residue of their sport--a sealed plastic drum on a drag rope to carry human waste off the cliff. In the early days of climbing, people bivouacking halfway up a rock face would throw their waste to the ground below. "Today that's simply unacceptable," says Janke...
Still, good intentions in camp do not always translate into the best practice in the field. About two miles west of Camp 4 is El Capitan, the majestic 3,000-ft. cliff face that is America's most famous climbing spot. On a busy day in the high season, there can be as many as 50 climbers on the face of El Cap, and each one is dragging up a considerable amount of equipment, trash and human waste. "On big walls, people get very intense after a few days up there--they feel more at risk, and ethics tend...
...road map is a cliff that both sides will fall off of." COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, on the precariousness of the Bush Administration's road map for peace after a cease-fire between Arabs and Israelis ended with deadly fighting...