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...pages), Simon Winchester takes an event that happened in a white-hot second and expands it in both directions, filling in the backstory and aftershocks to create a mesmerizing page turner. When Krakatoa erupted, at 10:02 a.m. on Aug. 27, 1883, it vaporized a 2,600-ft. mountain, created waves that killed a woman 2,000 miles away and produced spectacular sunsets as distant as New York City. But Winchester, who wrote the best-selling The Professor and the Madman, finds human stories in the island's troubled history that dwarf even the volcanic...
...Dartmouth had a bad omen,” Walsh said with a wink after the Crimson clinched its second consecutive Red Rolfe Division title. “The Old Man of the Mountain fell off yesterday...
...Kawa Karpo (sometimes referred to as Virgin Peak) is the formidable summit of Meili Mountain. At a towering 6,470 meters it is the highest point in Yunnan and has never been conquered. For thousands of years Kawa Karpo has been sacred to Tibetan Buddhists, and it is the site of a major annual pilgrimage. Locals are fond of recounting the cautionary tale of one of many ill-fated mountaineering expeditions: a team perished on the ascent, Tibetans believe, because it was blasphemous enough to tread on holy ground...
...even more leisurely ascent, the few clean and inexpensive stone guesthouses in Mingyong can arrange for mules to carry you partially up the mountain. Reaching the peak, however, will still require divine intervention...
...admire? Northwest Yunnan, which has made its first forays into ecotourism, is a perfect place to find out. Through it run branches of four of Asia's major rivers?the Yangtze, the Mekong, the Salween and the Irrawaddy. Between their banks soar some of the fastest-growing mountain ranges on earth, which in turn harbor the world's most biologically diverse temperate forests. Since 1998, when a large-scale ban on commercial logging axed 80% of Yunnan's income, its local governments have latched onto tourism as their salvation. But China's standard models for tourism development?the building...