Word: expeditioners
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When the Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) turned 80 this past August, it celebrated the occasion with a landmark climbing expedition in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan. Now, the group hopes to carve its niche in posterity with some tributes of mountainous proportions. The club, which was the first American...
A caravan of vintage Rolls-Royces, Bentleys and Aston Martins shimmers in the heat of the Jordanian desert. It's a vision but not a mirage. The Jewel That Is Jordan is an annual 1,300-km classic-car tour from the Red Sea port of Aqaba to the Roman...
The oldest is Lord Montagu of Beaulieu's Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, which has been purring along since 1909. If you can't get your classic car shipped over for the Sept. 14 start, then for $5,800 you can join as a passenger, including flights, accommodation and events. The...
WILL THE MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE EFFORT TO BUILD A MANNED INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION END TOO? In cost and justification, it's as dubious as the shuttle. The two programs are each other's mirror images. The space station was conceived mainly to give the shuttle a destination, and the shuttle...
The Suez crisis of 1956 was the critical juncture, when their own weakness shocked the West European powers. Britain and France invaded Egypt but then had to stand down in the face of opposition from the U.S. With the possible exception of the Falklands war, no major foreign military expedition...