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Howe said even trained rescue workers have been killed on the mountain...
...least 130 people have been killed on Mt. Washington since 1849—more than on any other mountain in North America—and even experienced hikers aren’t immune to danger on the mountain, said Nicholas Howe, author of Not Without Peril: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire...
Jackson is also hoping his facilities will entice other Hollywood filmmakers to pour money into the New Zealand economy. Some of Tom Cruise's next movie, The Last Samurai, will be shot there. Jackson's empire is just a short drive down a winding mountain road from the house where he and Walsh live. They are a curious couple; she is as thin as he is round, and they amuse each other endlessly. Besides co-writing the screenplay, Walsh directed bits of the trilogy. "We have very similar tastes, and that leads to an enormous amount of trust," says Jackson...
...also a talented athlete—he placed on Princeton’s varsity football team as a first-year before deciding to focus on academics—and is remembered as a home-run baseball player and an avid sailor. The Rawls family vacations often involved skiing, mountain climbing or backpacking...
...Qaeda senior aides such as Binalshibh and Palestinian bin Laden lieutenant Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan's big cities. But the tribal zone is a different story--a sensitive region. U.S. commandos, now mostly confined to the Afghan side of the border, are rarely allowed to raid possible mountain hideouts on the Pakistan side, whether by themselves or with Pakistani officers. Under the current delicate political climate for the government of Musharraf, say senior U.S. and Pakistani officials, that would be a mission impossible. Many of the deeply religious clans there sympathize with bin Laden and are bound by tribal honor...