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...never seen the guy,” Osborne said. “The amount of money you pay, the amount of effort you put in. You want to summit.”Media reports lauded Hall’s rescue, contrasting it to the recent death of British climber David Sharp. Just last month, the 34 year-old was left to die on the side of a pass as around 40 climbers trekked by. No one gave up the summit to see that he survived.Osborne says such an act is “bullshit...
...route to the summit, a steeper and more challenging path than the more frequently traveled “South Col” route, according to Osborne. Yet, Mt. Everest, towering at 29,000 feet on the border of Nepal and Tibet, is a challenge for even the most experienced climber. In the past half-century, 13 percent of all who braved the challenge died—178 out of 1373 climbs resulted in deaths, according to a 2004 New York Times article. “Everest is no walk in the park,” said Corey M. Rennell...
...throws in a half-baked storyline involving Mr. Brown’s financial and marital problems. When wealthy Great Aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) tells the broke Mr. Brown he must marry or will lose her financial assistance, he settles on Ms. Quickly (Celia Imrie), a horrid social climber. The children and Nanny McPhee must band together to rid themselves of these two terrors. The film is extremely visually arresting; its creative team dresses the characters in brightly colored clothes and perfectly fills the Brown house with quirky clutter. Both Lansbury and Staunton give gamely over-the-top performances, and Thompson...
Members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) assisted an injured climber on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire last Saturday. The group, who traveled to New Hampshire to teach new members about winter camping and hiking, was on its first winter trip of the season when the climber was hurt in the vicinity of Huntington Ravine near the HMC-operated cabin. The climber lost his footing due to a gust of wind and fell about 125 meters down the snow slope, according to Justin Preisendorfer, a snow ranger at the White Mountain National Forest. The climber suffered fractures...
...organization…[The expedition] is a great opportunity to see what the network [at Harvard] can do when it pulls all the resources into a great cause.” The two men—along with HBS student Boyd E. Bishop and documentary filmmaker and experienced climber Brad Clement—hope to reach the seven tallest summits in each continent within 198 days to break the current world record of 214 days. “[Murphy and Bishop] are physical studs in every sense of the word,” Serafini said. “Clement would...