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...takes 30% more energy to walk with. This is Whittaker's third assay on Everest. He was turned back once by an avalanche and once because he decided he was too slow. "No, I don't think I'm insane," says Whittaker, but adds this is his last summit attempt. And he's keeping his climb in perspective. "One of the things that really attracts me about mountaineering is its total pointlessness," he says. "So I've dedicated my life...
Since the storms on the summit of Everest span over more than 11 months of the year, there is only a brief window of time when the peak can be reached. Thus, the second time the team heads up the mountain, time is as much an enemy as the mountainous terrain itself. The climbers cross the avalanche-ridden Khumbu Icefall for a second time en route to the top. When they reach their previous camp, the climbers split up with Vesturs taking the lead sans oxygen. Finally, the climbers reach the top but, as is often true of hard-earned...
...President will attempt to restore U.S. stature by launching negotiations toward a hemisphere-wide free trade agreement during the weekend?s Summit of the Americas. That could be the easy part. Persuading Congress to restore his fast-track authority in time to conclude that agreement two years from now may seem a little like trying to get those leftist students to sing ?America the Beautiful...
WASHINGTON: By the time the other five nations sat down at the G-7 table in Washington on Wednesday, U.S. treasury secretary Robert Rubin had already pulled his Japanese counterpart aside to press the summit's most urgent business -- leaning on Japan to get its moribund economy moving again...
This was glasnost, 200 proof. The head of the communist world had bumped into the answer to Stalin's question: How many divisions has the Pope? And the Pope was engaging in spiritual geopolitics at summit level: he wanted human rights for the faithful in Russia. Karol Wojtyla's training was extensive, dating back to discreet studies for the priesthood under Nazi occupation in Poland. After that, parish work and academic studies under communist rule, leading in 1963 to the episcopacy in Cracow. Pity poor Gorbachev. Seventy-two years of formal national commitment to atheism, backed by the Gulag...