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...tiny nation with a harsh if spectacular terrain has offended its big neighbor, and India has not only refused to renew trade and transit agreements that expired last month but closed down eleven of 22 vital transit routes. Most of Nepal's necessities, including petroleum products and hospital oxygen, normally traverse these roads. Though New Delhi is permitting goods to cross the border, shortages are forcing the government to impose strict limits on the sale of gasoline and kerosene. Last week the rationing sparked the worst rioting in nearly a decade in the capital of Katmandu...
...hydrogen is combined with oxygen in fuel cells to produce electricity for the shuttle systems, with water as a byproduct...
...adventures are what happen when you make a mistake. She has been climbing, she says precisely, "for 11 1/2 years." She is a gifted rock climber. At extreme altitude, she is an aerobic marvel, renowned for climbing at unusual speed. She and the rest used bottled oxygen much of the time because of the dangers of altitude sickness. A reporter with some experience at altitude asks whether she felt sluggish and slow-thinking when she wasn't using oxygen. This is what he remembers and what virtually all climbers report. Not Allison; she said she had no problems, with...
...passed her on their way down. She reached the top alone, dulled and sluggish, and stayed about five minutes, not bothering with photos. As she started down, she realized her unprotected eyes were going snow blind. What she did not realize was that she had run out of oxygen. And on a steep slope just below the summit, she leaned over to try to see a foothold through the blazing retinal glare. The empty oxygen tank overbalanced her. She somersaulted downward...
Then strength and her adventurer's enchanted luck took over. She swung her ice ax, sunk it into the snow face and performed a perfect self-arrest, just the way they teach it in climbing school. She ditched the oxygen bottle and found her Sherpa. The only thing she could see by this time was the blue of his boots, so she followed the moving blue blobs. The next day her eyes were swollen shut...