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...account of a climber’s experience in the deadliest season for Mount Everest.The current season marked the second deadliest ever after the one chronicled by Krakauer, with 10 climbers confirmed dead so far.But to Osborne, the greatest challenge was not the physical danger, but the mental discipline.“You must train your body to climb for 20 hours with an 80lb pack, but harder is to have the mental strength to turn around half an hour below a summit,” Osborne wrote on his website before the climb.And Osborne showed the same perspective after...
...used to joke that, if you were traveling with Nick, you wanted to stay very close with him, because danger was always a short distance away,” Grafstein says. “He just has this incredible knack for being close to incredible news stories...
Money is only one of his problems. The Friday trips to Najaf are fraught with danger. The road from Baghdad runs through some of the most lawless parts of Iraq, where criminals routinely kill commuters to take their cars and terrorists have been known to attack funeral corteges. Sheik Jamal says his weekly convoy--one truck and several carloads of volunteers--has never been attacked, a fact he attributes to divine intervention. "It's God's work, and he finds a way for us to do it," he says...
...weren’t able to put it in context.”For most students, the hearings remained a distant reality.“I remember noting among those people whom I respected a tremor of apprehension,” Ells says. The lack of real danger made the hearings seem less threatening.“It wasn’t like undergraduates went around fearful,” Halberstam says. “We didn’t think Harvard would crumble.”A BITTER WINTERAfter he was indicted for contempt of the Senate, Kamin took...
...While blogging has put some young activists in danger, it also has provided a venue for friends and family to agitate for their release and advertise their plight. When 23-year-old Ahmed El Droubi was beaten and arrested at a peaceful sit-in a month ago, his friends and fellow bloggers leapt into action. "They created a Web site called "Free Droubi" that posted information about protests and updates on El Droubi's condition in jail, including posts featuring messages from the prisoner himself. A month later, El Droubi was released, but he and his friends continue...