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HABITS ARE HARD TO BREAK Sherpa Appa has twice said he would stop making his annual climb, but last week he did it again--for a record 16th time since...
...body. Since philosopher René Descartes uncoupled it from the mind in the 17th century, it has been second banana. Storytellers have fetishized the mind and exalted it as the locus of character and the self. The body has been along mainly for the ride ever since, the mind's sherpa...
...Number of times Nepalese climber Apa Sherpa has reached the summit of Mount Everest?a world record he achieved last week...
...climbing that is internationally recognized,” President Lucas T. Laursen ’06 says. “We want to go to an unexplored area and climb things that haven’t been climbed before.” And the historical significance of the sherpa-esque club is not lost on its current members. “Take the example of Bradford Washburn,” says Alexander P. Cole ’08 of the famous cartographer, geographer, and HMC alum. “You can go into our clubroom...
Mention mountain climbing, and most people envisage an exhausting clamber up sheer rock faces or dangling from a nylon rope in all weathers. That's absolutely true of some peaks, but Asia also offers less taxing alternatives. You don't need a Sherpa's lungs to scale some of the region's best-loved mountains, and you can get to the foot of many of them by public transport. Some even have comfortable trailhead accommodation...