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...former President Jimmy Carter found trekking through the Himalayas in northern Nepal to be a challenge nonetheless. The goal of his two-week expedition was the pinnacle of 18,192-ft.-high Mount Kala Pattar, one of the scenic peaks in the valley surrounded by the loftier Lhotse and Everest. Accompanied by Rosalynn, Carter quickly outpaced four of his Secret Service men, who had to return to camp because of altitude sickness. When the group reached a rarefied 15,000 ft., his wife was flown out by helicopter while he proceeded to the top. The next day, while visiting...
...singer and actress (Lady Sings the Blues); and Arne Naess Jr., 47, Norwegian shipping tycoon and mountaineer; both for the second time; in New York; on Oct. 23. The two met last May in the Bahamas, where Naess was vacationing after leading an expedition to the summit of Mount Everest...
...tallest volcano is three times as high as Mount Everest, and its great rift valley plunges to over four times the depth of the Grand Canyon. Global dust storms with winds up to 300 m.p.h. sometimes obscure its arid surface, which is pocked with vast gulches and deltas apparently left by ancient rivers. And maybe, just maybe, its stones bear fossils of primitive creatures that vanished billions of years ago with the waters that gave them life...
...with Me, performed by Korean singer Lena Park and a Japanese band called Chemistry. China also picked up on the good vibes and was making efforts to put aside its long-standing antipathy toward Japan: a group of women climbers from Japan and China arranged to take on Mount Everest together, their ascent supposedly symbolizing that the steep challenges in the relationship between Asia's two great powers can be overcome. Economically, too, North Asia has never been closer: China is now Japan's largest trading partner, and trade between Japan and South Korea is at an all-time high...
...that age and keep playing,'" Giambi testified, according to the Chronicle. "And that's how the conversation first started." Buster Olney, a baseball writer for ESPN the Magazine who has a vote in Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame elections, calls Giambi's court appearance the "Mount Everest of steroids and baseball testimony. Nothing else is going to come close...