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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...
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. Preclimb points to remember: carry plenty of drinking water to ward off dehydration at higher altitudes; pack warm, waterproof gear; take it easy...
...They are just jealous and angry that I broke the old record." PEMBA DORJE, Sherpa guide, whose claim to have climbed Mount Everest in 8 hr. 10 min. on May 21 is being challenged by rival climbers
...Nepalese mountaineer Pemba Dorje Sherpa completed the fastest-ever ascent of Mount Everest from base camp last week, shaving more than two hours off the old record. Pemba Dorje's feat was one of survival as well as speed: in the same week, four climbers died on Everest...
Vanserg is in Siberia. The Quad is the Gulag. You can’t ascend William James without a Sherpa. Our dinnertime conversation bears a passing resemblance to that of late-Victorian British adventurers as it degenerates into how-far-afield-have-you-gone games of one-upmanship: You had section in the Science Center? Well, I just got back from the Center for European Studies. You’ve got class in Lowell Lecture Hall? I don’t want to hear about it; I had to go to office hours in Hilles. Granted, late-Victorian British adventurers...