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...Despite enjoying Russian President Vladimir Putin's energetic support, Yanukovych has seemed out of his depth in the current political crisis. At one point last week, he pledged to support a free press and transfer some presidential powers to the legislature. Soon after, he denounced Yushchenko for trying to mount a "coup." But if his frequent calls to resolve the election dispute without violence are to be believed, perhaps Yanukovych really has left his troubled past behind...
...area protected as part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area which covers more than a million hectares of steep gorges, waterfalls, swamps and sandstone escarpments that, in the late afternoon sun, glow the color of warm toffee. From this vantage point, looking west to flat-topped Mount Tomah, the first peak Caley reached, eucalypt-green ridges roll away like swell on an uneasy sea. The leaves of huge gums shimmer in the wind. It looks just as impenetrable as Caley might have seen it, and just as forbidding. "It looks epic down there," someone mutters...
...While the self-taught botanist had just a compass and guesswork to guide him, the team - brought together by the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden to mark the bicentenary of his feat by reenacting a segment of it - has all the tools of modern bushwalking. When one of the group injures his leg in a fall, there are mobile phones to summon a car along a fire trail. Caley may have put up with flour, dried beef and the birds the party's dog caught, but these walkers have freeze-dried kangaroo korma and bolognese, fresh snow peas, peanut butter...
...gather his men that night and urge them, as he recounts in his journal, to continue. When they had arrived at the edge of this plunging valley, Caley noted that it seemed "to bid defiance to any man." Going down was brave, says Ian Brown, who leads the Mount Tomah group. A modest, quietly spoken man with a wry sense of humor, he was one of the three men who in 1997 became the first Australians to walk unassisted to the South Pole. "Then again," he adds, "he probably saw that ridge over there as leading to Tomah and thought...
...Caley's plan was always to head straight for the hill now known as Mount Tomah. But the country wouldn't let him, continually pushing him along spurs, forcing him into steep gullies and bringing him to the edge of ha-has, the dreaded chasms that on several occasions seemed to open at the party's feet. Often they had to retrace their weary steps. The bush remains as trackless today as it was then, a labyrinth of wood and rock. Few know its secret corners and paths as do modern explorers like Brown, Andy Macqueen and Wyn Jones. Macqueen...