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...hardly his first major summit, but 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...
...sleek 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...
...drop to about 55° F. As rescuers hunted frantically amid the soupy devastation for mud-covered survivors, it was soon clear that Nevado del Ruiz would rate as one of the deadliest volcanic eruptions in all of recorded history, roughly equivalent to the A.D. 79 explosion of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum...
...movement of two of the earth's huge tectonic plates (see following story). Similar forces were responsible for the Mexico City earthquake as well as the tremors that perennially shake California. But the eruption also bore an eerie similarity to the 1980 detonation of Washington State's Mount St. Helens, which left an estimated 65 people dead and missing. The initial Nevado del Ruiz blast sent steam and millions of tons of ash into the Andean air, but the debris was followed by almost no lava. About 90 minutes after the initial detonation, there was a second...
...them lying in the so-called Ring of Fire, a broad circle that more or less coincides with the boundaries of the Pacific, where oceanic plates are diving under continental plates. Of particular concern to scientists are some of the peaks in the Cascades, the mountain range that includes Mount St. Helens. The Mammoth Lakes ski-resort area in California is another area of potential volcanic activity...