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...Weihenmayer arrive that afternoon, Pasquale Scaturro began to have misgivings about the expedition he was leading. Here they were on the first floor of Mount Everest, and Erik--the reason for the whole trip--was stumbling into Camp 1 bloody, sick and dehydrated. "He was literally green," says fellow climber and teammate Michael O'Donnell. "He looked like George Foreman had beat the crap out of him for two hours." The beating had actually been administered by Erik's climbing partner, Luis Benitez. Erik had slipped into a crevasse, and as Benitez reached down to catch him, his climbing pole...
REACHED SUMMIT. ERIK WEIHENMAYER, 32, blind mountaineer; on Mount Everest. The Golden, Colo., climber is the first blind person ever to scale the world's highest peak. Among his 18 climbing teammates was Sherman Bull, 64, the oldest person ever to reach the summit...
...bury him with rocks, there was an outcry from some members of the audience at the team's perceived inhumanity. "These people have absolutely no concept of the difficulty of even physically getting to the place we found Mallory, let alone the precariousness of that location for a climber merely trying to keep himself from hurtling into the abyss," Simonson says. "It's not until people die on the mountains that audiences wake up and realize how dangerous the sport...
...childhood successes: as long as you have boned up on whatever subject is at hand, you will succeed. That principle carried him through a successful career as a lawyer and eventually stints as a legislator and as mayor of Taipei. Despite Chen's success, the grasping of a social climber is also detectable in his tireless rise through the meritocracy. "What Chen lacks is emotional intelligence," says columnist Hu. "He doesn't have that. How can you be a great leader without that kind of emotional center...
...Despite Chen's success, one also detects the desperate grasping of a social climber in his tireless rise up the meritocracy. Indeed, he has gone about as far as one can on brains and effort: all the way to the presidency. But to reach the next level, to become a great President, requires vision. And you can't find that in any textbooks. "What Chen lacks is emotional intelligence," says Hu, "he doesn't have that. How can you be a great leader without that kind of emotional center?" Chen says he is working on that, studying up on being...