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Members of the Penan tribe of northeastern Borneo know that Batu Lawi, a 2,000-m sheer limestone pinnacle, is a demon-haunted place to be avoided at all costs. To Bruno Manser, however, Batu Lawi represented everything he loved about the untouched forest of the region. He almost perished trying to reach its summit in 1988. As he told friends, he spent 24 hours hanging from a rope, unable to reach the rock face. Only a desperate swing brought him within grabbing distance of the rock...
...party, which penetrated to the foot of Batu Lawi; a helicopter circled the rock. The expedition found nothing. One major gap in all the searches still remains, however: none of the search teams was able?or willing?to follow Manser and scale the murderously difficult last 100 meters of sheer limestone that forms the tip of Batu Lawi...
When it comes to reviewing, if you want erudition, lucidity and fine judgment, read George Bernard Shaw on classical music or Alfred Kazin on books. But for sheer pinwheeling, exclamation-pointed opinion, there is no beating the regular folk who have popped up all over the Internet. Everywhere in cyberspace there are Web pages where do-it-yourself critics hold forth about movies, books, music and restaurants, to say nothing of airlines, power tools, and disposable diapers. What you discover at these sites is generally heartfelt and sometimes well informed and well written. Or breathless, obvious and ungrammatical--that...
...gray clouds, emunctory thunder rolling in the distance and the water agitated to a nice "muskie chop," as the judge calls it - good fishing weather. The judge - Judge David H. Brind of Geneva, New York, my father-in-law - pointed the boat S-SW toward the point of Sheer Rock Island. This is the fortieth year that the judge has come to fish for muskies in Elephant Lake; he knows every weedbed and rock, and almost every muskie by name...
...caught (and released) two undersized muskies this trip - 30 inches and 34 inches, the legal minimum being 36. As we trolled toward Sheer Rock Island, we saw that in addition to the flock of white and gray gulls that always congregate on the archipelago of rocks dribbling out from the point, there now stood four blackish, scrawny cormorants - freshwater coyotes much given to a diet of sport fish. Win some (tiger muskies), lose some (via cormorants...