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Charles Zhang is not afraid of heights. Recently, Zhang, 39, the founder of Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com was clinging to the face of Mount Everest, 6,666 m above sea level. That's high but nothing compared with the altitude of his company's stock price. On July 10, Sohu shares closed at $38.25 on NASDAQ--a gain of 245% since April 1. More impressive, Sohu shares are worth 36 times their value during the dark days of the Internet bust, when they traded for less than...
Zhang, who holds a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T., sees parallels between his recent attempt to scale Everest and his near death business experience: "The temperature was subzero, with winds threatening to blow my tent over, and I was constantly out of breath. But as bad as it was, I'd sooner do it all again than repeat what I went through after the bubble burst." Is he out to climb more mountains? Undoubtedly; he's not afraid of heights. --By Kaiser Kuo/Chengdu
True crime isn't really Krakauer's beat--he's the author of Into Thin Air, the bestselling account of a disastrous Everest expedition--but he takes an able, earnest stab at it. It turns out that Ron and Dan weren't just plain crazy. They were members of a fundamentalist Mormon sect, and Krakauer spends much of the book putting their crime in the context of the strange and violent history of the Mormon Church...
Want the latest in sun protection? Kiehl's, the iconic New York City apothecary whose skin-care products have served Everest climbers and other rarefied clientele, has a superb line of lightweight, nongreasy Vital Sun Protection ($18). Also hot: UV monitors, left, from SunCheck.com that turn blue as sunscreen wears off (seven for $7.95). --By Julie Rawe
...Sitting around in a big base camp and knocking back cans of beer--I don't particularly regard as mountaineering." SIR EDMUND HILLARY, who with his partner, Tenzing Norgay, 50 years ago was the first climber to reach the top of Mount Everest, on the upsurge in amateur climbers since then...