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...reaction to two sophisticated young pianists who made New York City debuts last week. One was jazzman Matt Savage, who led his trio through a swinging, bop-tinged evening at Manhattan's Blue Note. His sets ranged from the standard My Favorite Things to originals like Groovin' on Mount Everest. He traced melodies simply, sometimes decorating them with trills, and shifted between softly gliding passages and furious fantasias with his arms whipping up and down the keyboard, using even his fist to bang out a climactic chord. "Scary," marveled jazz pianist D.D. Jackson, who was in the Blue Note audience...
...history books. "We want to turn this beautiful Himalayan country into an invincible red fort and a shining trench of world proletariat revolution," declared Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai before the rebels took to the hills in 1996. "We are sure we will hoist the hammer and sickle atop Mount Everest...
...gonna make it," he says. "Shoot, I walked everyone to the ground." Bounding down the mountain afterward, disregarding his aching legs, Bass resolved to climb the highest point on each continent. Four years later, he became the first person in history to complete the Seven Summits, which include Everest; this spring Bass, now 73, returned to Everest in an attempt to become its oldest summiter...
...didn't find it earlier in life." He'll climb again in September. Other common problems include back pain (from falls and carrying packs), pulled tendons and altitude-related infections. Then there are the more exotic ailments. Chuck Armatys, 52, lost the tip of his big toe summiting Everest and the end of his ring finger on Illampu, Bolivia, both from frostbite. "The things you lose in the mountains," he muses merrily...
Dangling from cliffs in casts, the live-fast, die-old set defies stereotypes about staid seniors. Though climbers must be extraordinarily cautious, the payoff is hard bodies and quick minds. That's why Wignall is frantic to escape his bedroom and climb; why Bass will give Everest another go; why he'll face competition from Miura, who will also return. "I wanted to encourage the elders in the world that if man keeps hopes and a dream, believes in the dream and works toward the dream, the heart and soul of man will remain young," Miura says...