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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seaborn Beck Weathers thought his chances of success were good. Mount Everest is a tough climb, to be sure, but not the monster it once was. Weathers, 50, a wealthy pathologist from Dallas, is not a professional mountaineer. But he was in the best shape of his life. He had clothing designed to protect him to 80 degrees below zero. And he had paid $60,000 to Rob Hall--a renowned New Zealand climber and guide who had seen 39 people like Weathers to the top of the world in the past four years. "Rob felt...
...Everest had become the accessible behemoth, or so it seemed. Never as murderously tricky to climb as K-2, the world's second-highest peak, its challenge lay in the brute facts of its extreme altitude, occasional storms and inaccessibility. As clothing and equipment manufacturers mitigated the first problem, and a sprawling base camp sprang up at 5,340 meters to provide warmth and food to dozens of would-be peak beaters, the issue for elite climbers was no longer whether they could reach Everest's pinnacle but rather how many paying customers they could take with them...
...These changes are ridiculous--it hurts the part-timers the most," Kelley said in an interview yesterday. "I always feel like I climb up a couple of steps and get knocked down like five...
...convention of two-dimensional horizontal scrolling video games. No more bouncing off guardrails or dissolving in fuzzy pixels on the edge of the screen. Wherever you want to go--forward, backward, left, right or anywhere in between--the scene follows you in dazzling 3D. If you want to climb a wall or dive into the moat, you can. (The water is gorgeously rendered, and it's worth the plunge just to hear the dreamy New Age sound track that accompanies underwater excursion...
That attitude has changed, among performers and with the public. Sales of two-track CD singles rose from 1.9 million units in 1994 to 7.1 million in 1995 and continue to climb, as do sales of multitrack singles. Prices vary from $2 to $7, though the standard price hovers around $3.49. Singles for superstars like Mariah Carey are sometimes deeply discounted to help the songs scale the charts...