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...early '90s, the current generation is increasingly opting to space out through 'shrooms rather than get wired and tuned in with shabu. With vendors selling the dried fungi in head shops, street-corner stands and even over the Internet, scoring mushrooms has become as easy as buying a pack of incense or some herbal tea. Vendors, however, have to walk a fine line. In the case of mushrooms, it is illegal to extract the active ingredients?in most cases, psilocybin?but it isn't illegal to possess the fungus itself. This means vendors can sell the mushrooms, but they...
...that spins about 10,000 times a minute, moving hydraulic fluid through a valve that alternately allows blood to be pumped to the lungs or the body. There is a small battery inside the device powering its control unit; that battery is in turn powered by an external battery pack (worn on the belt or suspenders) that transfers energy across the skin, without any connections. Without wires. Without tubes...
...PACK A set of well-developed abdominal muscles; a lean, muscular midriff
...Climbing with Erik isn't that different from climbing with a sighted mountaineer. You wear a bell on your pack, and he follows the sound, scuttling along using his custom-made climbing poles to feel his way along the trail. His climbing partners shout out helpful descriptions: "Death fall 2 ft. to your right!" "Emergency helicopter-evacuation pad to your left!" He is fast, often running up the back of less experienced climbers. His partners all have scars from being jabbed by Erik's climbing poles when they slowed down...
...eager he is to get back home. He says summiting Everest was great, probably the greatest experience of his life. But then he thinks about a moment a few months ago, before Everest, when he was walking down the street in Colorado with daughter Emma in a front pack. They were on their way to buy some banana bread for his wife, and Emma was pulling on his hand, her little fingers curled around his index finger. That was a summit too, he says. There are summits everywhere. You just have to know where to look...