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...seems that the mountain will always have stories to tell--or at least that there will always be people looking to solve its mysteries. A group of explorers this week announced that they may have discovered the body of climber George Mallory high atop Mount Everest. Mallory died in 1924 in a blizzard on the mountain, and there remains the hotly-debated question of whether he was killed on his way to the summit or on the way down after successfully reaching the top. Mallory and his fellow climber Andrew Irvine might turn out to have been the first...
...Amount a climber is charged to scale America's tallest peak, Mount McKinley, in Denali National Park, to defray rescue costs...
...black status symbols. Graham shows how easily ambitious outsiders can now join the black upper class. He boasts that he belongs to the Boule, a group of "the most accomplished, affluent and influential black men" in the nation. If the Boule were really all that exclusive, a social climber like him would never have...
...everyone, even exhibitionist models with a knack for sensuous hand gestures, should abandon their Purell. Except me. I haven't been waging the germ war because I'm afraid of getting sick. I like being sick. It means I get to stay home and watch that little yodeling mountain climber on The Price Is Right. No, I'm waging my own secret, illogical germ warfare because that way, when the end comes and it's just me and Mandel against the Killer Germ, he'll have to have me as a guest on his syndicated talk show...
Phillips and a visitor have been traversing a short, paved forest trail near the Stillaguamish River. She stands up from her battered wheelchair, folds it and tosses it through the hatch of her hard-used Toyota. She was a skilled, passionate mountain climber until she was 40. Then that part of her life slammed shut. A painful condition called fybromyalgia set in, limited her walking to a few yards and turned her sharply focused energy toward forest activism...