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...vast you need a platoon of porters, a cook and a couple of guides to see you through. (Two reputable firms are Himalayan River Runners in New Delhi, tel: (91-11) 685-2602, and Zingaro Travels in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, tel: (91-1902) 52-736. Our 10-day hike cost $950 per person, including transport, accommodation at the end and a sleeping bag.) Try to do it on your own, as you can in Nepal, and you'll most likely disappear...
...There are many walks to choose from. The Buran Pass trek is typical: the path snakes between the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal and ends by leading the walker down into the fearsome gorge of the mighty Sutlej River as it rushes down from Tibet. The hike can only be done in early summer after the snows melt and before the monsoon turns the mountains to mud. On the other side of the pass, trekkers must traverse a glacier after being linked together with ropes. We safely slid the last 200 m to the bottom, but our stores, which...
...Manser separated from two Penan acquaintances near the base of the mountain, saying he would climb it alone. With just a few days of walking, he would have been reunited with his closest Penan friends. But Manser never made that hike. After he was left near Batu Lawi, he was never seen again...
...misty and cool at the top of the mountain. The sisters and their mother breathe it in hard after their hour-long hike, which followed a four-hour drive north from Tokyo, which followed a 12-hour flight from London. Cassie Yukawa, 20, clutches a fistful of wildflowers for the father she last saw when she was four. It was here that Akihisa Yukawa was killed 16 years ago this day, Aug. 12, in a Japan Airlines 747 crash along with 519 others, the worst disaster in history involving a single plane. Weeks after his death, Yukawa's second daughter...
...always, a little silver in an otherwise black, black lining: New home sales rose 4.9 percent in July to 950,000 units, up from a revised 906,000 units in June, according to the Commerce Department. Analysts had expected a dip to 918,000 units, but instead the hike brought the housing number to near its March peak. That?s good news for the consumer-spending watch - while the economy waits for businesses to come out of their post-bubble fetal position, it seems our nation?s shoppers - who account for two-thirds of U.S. economic activity - may be able...