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...Upward Ho! Lining Up for Everest Last june, erik weihenmayer, right, became the first blind climber to reach Mount Everest's icy 8,850-m peak, and on his way he carved a hint of approachability in the mountain's otherwise treacherous face. Now there's a veritable buffet line of hopeful summiteers, from amputees to an all-women team to the descendants of the first climbers to reach the peak. It's no easy trek: though a record 182 people made it to the top last year, 90% of Everest climbers fail. By SORA SONG...
Last June, Erik Weihenmayer, right, became the first blind climber to reach Mount Everest's icy 29,035-ft. peak, and on his way he carved a hint of approachability in the mountain's otherwise treacherous face. Now there's a veritable buffet line of hopeful summiteers, from amputees to an all-woman team to the descendants of the first climbers to reach the peak. It's no easy trek: though a record 182 people made it to the top last year, 90% of Everest climbers fail. --By Sora Song...
DIED. WARREN HARDING, 77, first rock climber to scale Yosemite's El Capitan, who opened the door to "big wall" climbing in the U.S.--nicknamed "Batso" for his batlike tendency to hang from cliffs; of liver failure; in Happy Valley, Calif...
...Tenzing Norgay and his generation of climbers forged a path that the Sherpa people now navigate daily. Their pioneering accomplishments served as a bridge from the communities' isolated, subsistence past to the "relative affluence and sophistication that they enjoy today," writes Tenzing. A Sherpa, working as a high-altitude climber, can make four times the average annual wage of a Nepali. Namche Bazaar, the trading capital of the Khumbu Valley, once comprising a few dozen mud houses, now features neon lights, sophisticated communications systems and blaring rock music. The Khumbu is dotted with medical clinics and schools. But the climbing...
...less so while wearing tights. Aussie hunk HUGH JACKMAN'S Danskin moment arrives in the upcoming contempo-period piece hybrid, Kate & Leopold. In the film, Jackman portrays a 19th century English duke transported to the 21st century who--what else?--grows smitten with a Manhattan corporate climber (MEG RYAN). Having depicted high-testosterone men in X-Men and Swordfish, he says the role "was a big challenge, though I have quite a bit of English blood. I had to go back to England and hire a coach to teach me some manners." But experience in musicals made him ready...