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CLARKSBURG, West Virginia: Seven people with connections to a West Virginia militia group were arrested Friday and accused of plotting to blow up a new FBI fingerprinting records complex. Most of the seven are members of the West Virginia-based Mountaineer Militia. The group had targeted an almost-completed $200...
Seaborn Beck Weathers thought his chances of success were good. Mount Everest is a tough climb, to be sure, but not the monster it once was. Weathers, 50, a wealthy pathologist from Dallas, is not a professional mountaineer. But he was in the best shape of his life. He had...
Leader Hall, meanwhile, had stayed on the ridge to tend Hansen, who had expended all his energy on the summit. Exposed and out of oxygen, Hansen died during the night. Hall hung on: at 4:35 the next morning, his startled friends in camp heard his voice on the two...
"You get big storms at any time at extremes of altitude, but this one, it sounds like it was a real humdinger." --Mountaineer Greg Mortimer, of the blizzard that killed eight people on Mount Everest
What do people think they're getting, or escaping, in the dream machines that some owners don't realize are, in fact, trucks? A good bet is that they are scampering away from the honk and fuss and double parking of the world that cars created. TV and magazine ads...