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Despite its height, climbing up Mt. Harvard is hardly a death-defying experience. "It's an undistinguished lump on a fairly undistinguished range; it just happens to be very high," says John C. Reed of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver. Reed, who has climbed the mountain once, describes it only as "a long walk" of about three or four miles...
Despite its height, climbing up Mt. Harvard is hardly a death-defying experience. "It's an undistinguished range; it just happens to be very high," says John C. Reed of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver. Reed, who has climbed the mountain once, describes it only as "a long walk" of about three or four miles...
...view from the mountain especially scenic, compared with Colorado's other 54 mountains above 14,000 feet. "In terms of being spectacular, Mt. Harvard would not be really high on the list," Reed says...
...initiatives he would propose. We had been collecting ideas for months, polling them and vetting them. We announced some on a daily basis and put some in a piggy bank to save for the convention speech. The bureaucracy opposed a lot of them, but [presidential aides] Bruce Reed, Gene Sperling and Rahm Emanuel helped push most through...
...past five years, Beckwith and Fisher have been concentrating on sacred rites of passage that mark major life changes: birth, puberty, courtship, healing and death. This fieldwork will continue for one more year; the photographers are currently in the field filming the Swazi reed dance in Swaziland, Ndebele marriages in South Africa and Tuareg seasonal ceremonies in the Sahara. Says Beckwith: "These ceremonies are some of the most powerful events in these tribes. They promote healing and provide a powerful new sense of identity. Some of the rituals we've photographed no longer exist. And many of those that...