Word: summiteer
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...contact with Hall as he made his decision. Filmmakers and climbers who had known the famous guide for years, they were 8,000 ft. below him, in the relative safety of a mountainside campsite. Hall, on the other hand, was 400 ft. shy of Everest's 29,028-ft. summit--the highest peak in the world--stuck on an outcrop where he had spent the night after a sudden blizzard pounded the mountain. The situation was probably not survivable, and yet the other climbers were determined to help Hall live through it. "Think about Thailand," Viesturs said. "Once you come...
...part of the story has never been told. Breashears and Viesturs were on the mountain that week to try something never before attempted: to capture the ascent to Everest's summit in the highest-quality movie film available, the dizzyingly realistic 65-mm IMAX format. Resting at their campsite in preparation for the grueling mountaintop filming, they became unintended participants in the tragedy, as well as unexpected heroes. Their film, which tells the story of Everest and the drama that unfolded on it, will premiere next spring. This week they offer an advance look at it as the book Everest...
...Americans have many virtues-we are a hardworking, innovative people-but we are also impatient.' HENRY PAULSON, U.S. Treasury Secretary, opening a two-day U.S.-China trade summit in Washington D.C. by warning that the talks needed to address "immediate concerns" such as the effects of China's trade surplus and its undervalued currency on the U.S. economy...
...RECORDS 8,848 Altitude, in meters, at which the world's highest mobile phone call was made, on May 21, by climber Rod Baber from the summit of Mount Everest -30 Temperature, in degrees Celsius, when Baber made the call. The phone's batteries were taped to his body to ensure they would stay warm enough to work...
CONTEXT German authorities have said potentially violent activists could face up to two weeks of preventive detention during June's Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm...