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...MOUNT WASHINGTON BRETTON WOODS...
...Erik that "while some girls dream of a big house with a white picket fence, my dream is to lead a life that is extraordinary, never ordinary." Shortly after uttering those words, she found herself climbing past howling monkeys in Africa to reach a 12,000-ft. plateau on Mount Kilimanjaro, where she and Erik wed in the summer...
When he saw Erik Weihenmayer arrive that afternoon, Pasquale Scaturro began to have misgivings about the expedition he was leading. Here they were on the first floor of Mount Everest, and Erik?the reason for the whole trip?was stumbling into Camp 1 bloody, sick and dehydrated. "He was literally green," says fellow climber and teammate Michael O'Donnell. "He looked like George Foreman had beat the crap out of him for two hours." The beating had actually been administered by Erik's climbing partner, Luis Benitez. Erik had slipped into a crevasse, and as Benitez reached down to catch...
...been having the same doubts as the rest of the team. On that arduous climb to camp through the Khumbu Icefall, Erik wondered for the first time if his attempt to become the first sightless person to summit Mount Everest was a colossal mistake, an act of Daedalian hubris for which he would be punished. There are so many ways to die on that mountain, spanning the spectacular (fall through an ice shelf into a crevasse, get waylaid by an avalanche, develop cerebral edema from lack of oxygen and have your brain literally swell out of your skull...
...tricky. Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform and one of Europe's leading defense analysts, identifies three issues on which the Americans and Europeans need to find common ground: development of the European Union's defense capability in a way that enhances its ability to mount peacekeeping operations without undermining NATO, missile defense and the possible enlargement of NATO to include the Baltic states. Grant, a supporter of a European defense capability, describes Washington's attitude as "skeptical but not opposed" to the idea. For many analysts, the key question is whether leading European governments are prepared...