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...only 60 meters below the summit at the base of a 12-meter vertical rock face, later named the Hillary Step, desperately hoping it could be scaled. In 1953, so much of modern mountaineering was still to be discovered. Archaic clothing and tents made Everest's frigid temperatures lethal. Oxygen bottles were three times heavier than today's. Deadly altitude illnesses, little understood, caused brains to swell and lungs to fill with fluid. Because lightweight radios had yet to be invented, it wasn't until Hillary and Tenzing had descended to within a few hundred meters of advanced base camp...
...Over the next 50 years, top climbers from around the world converged on Everest's slopes to attempt their own groundbreaking firsts. In 1978, Reinhold Messner's ascent without bottled oxygen defied the conventional wisdom that time spent without artificial oxygen above 7,900 meters?in the "death zone"?would cause irreparable brain damage. In 2000, Babu Chiri Sherpa?the most famous Sherpa?climbed from base camp to the top of Everest in just under 16 hours...
...hired Jonathan Littman, the Fox executive who oversaw The X-Files and Beverly Hills, 90210, to run his TV company and instructed him to develop a show about a crime-scene-investigation lab. "We basically said we wanted to make Quincy for people who don't need an oxygen mask," Littman says. "We go into the body, making it almost three-dimensional. We have made TV director-centric as well as writer-centric. TV is moving toward high definition. We'd all better develop a more visual attitude...
...confusion couldn’t mask the glaring reality, and that is this: Hendricks, the junior who is only about as important as oxygen to the Harvard baseball team, will undergo surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and miss six weeks. Hendricks will have a bone chip removed from his knee, and should be healthy for summer ball in Brewster of the Cape Cod League, set to start a week after NCAA Regionals would occur in early June...
...suburb of Solana Beach, packed up a few bags and drove off in their Ford F150 truck to go up to Modesto to see their son. (Their other car is a Jaguar.) They both looked drained and exhausted. Halfway through the interview, Jackie Peterson had to put on her oxygen mask when she started gasping for breath. "This is going to kill me," she said...