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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Murden adds this 51-day journey to a list of many other outdoor adventures, including ice climbing in Alaska mountain climbing in the Himalayas and exploring Africa...
...certainly does. I went mountain climbing there once...
Wood burning in the late '80s is no more sensible or righteous than mountain climbing. There was an old gent in my town, died a couple of years back, who split and stacked huge piles of wood well past his 80th birthday. He had plenty of money and an unused oil furnace, but wood splitting felt right to him, made sense. For a time, during the trendy days of wood stoves, he was a hero. After wood stoves lost their vogue and he continued to split firewood, he was thought mildly eccentric. Then he died...
...small convoy of Toyota Landcruisers escorted by armed rebels threads its way over a mountain pass in northern Ethiopia. In the vehicles are members of a European medical team on their way to staff a hospital in territory captured by guerrillas. Thousands of miles away another medical corps travels with a caravan of packhorses through rugged terrain into Afghanistan. There its members will treat victims of the war between the Afghan resistance and the Soviet-backed government. At a headquarters building in Paris, shortwave-radio antennas turn toward Africa. A faraway voice reports that a cholera epidemic has struck refugees...
...other hand, there will be more business for the cluster of gift shops in Dock Square that sell things like scented candles and T shirts. Diane Frazier, owner of Mountain Tops, which offers BUSH COUNTRY sweat shirts for $16.99, says, "He's great for business. But I don't want to do anything tacky. He's the President...