Word: mountaineers
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...photo “Waiting for School,” a depiction of a meditative boy in Thailand, earned first prize in the People category. Megan E. Camm ’07 won best in show from 220 submissions, gaining a $75 gift certificate from Eastern Mountain Sports. Her piece “Remembering Our History,” shot in Joza, Grahamstown, South Africa, portrayed a local fruit stand, with undertones provided by a photo in the background showing a victim of apartheid. “A picture can help you sort through some of the emotions you can?...
British Columbia's mountain caribou population has halved in the past decade. So officials last month made a controversial proposal to hunt its predators in areas of heavy decline...
...Mountain goats...
...showing Moses pleading with God for divine intervention to stop the wage initiative. "We can't let the people make this mistake," God responds. "Go. Spread the word. Vote no on 42!" Voters don't seem to be heeding that call, though. In a Rocky Mountain News/CBS poll, 74% said they would definitely or probably support the wage boost, with just 20% saying they wouldn...
...just after midnight when frog researcher Steve Richards heard a strange melodious whistle amid the patter of rain in the Papua New Guinea cloud forest. The sound swept away the Australian zoologist's exhaustion as he struggled through the thorny vines and stinging nettles covering the remote mountain slope in the Southern Highlands. "When I heard this, I knew it was going to be fantastic," he says. Switching on his tape recorder and headlamp, he moved carefully toward the sound, trying not to blunder into one of the limestone sinkholes that dot the area...