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...group of explorers this week announced that they may have discovered the body of climber George Mallory high atop Mount Everest. Mallory died in 1924 in a blizzard on the mountain, and there remains the hotly-debated question of whether he was killed on his way to the summit or on the way down after successfully reaching the top. Mallory and his fellow climber Andrew Irvine might turn out to have been the first to summit Everest, long before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did so in 1953. The PBS show "Nova" is documenting the current expedition, which...
High on their wish list is Mallory's Kodak Vest Pocket camera which might have undeveloped shots from the summit. The "Nova" production will be the most recent in a string of Everest-related media events, including the highly-acclaimed "Everest" Omnimax film and Jon Krakauer's best-selling account of a 1996 disaster on the mountain, Into Thin Air. Few of us can get enough of the myth and stories of the often painful reality surrounding the world's tallest mountain. The hype has even extended to the Web, where the site everest.mountainzone.com is sponsoring the expedition and selling...
...excitement over the possible discovery of the body and the race to find out the truth of whether the explorer actually reached the top, Mallory's son John is quietly trying to defuse the importance of the debate, saying that his father cannot be considered the first to summit Everest. "To me the only way you achieve a summit is to come back alive. The job is half done, isn't it, if you don't get down again," he said in an interview on BBC radio. He continued by pointing out that he hoped the body would...
Unfortunately, Milosevic hasn't given any sign of that. So NATO leaders quietly concluded a summit that was more symbolic than substantive. They made solemn proclamations: We will stick together. We will prevail. We will intensify the bombing until Milosevic capitulates to the terms we have already laid down...
What overshadows everything is NATO's failure so far to stop the slaughter. Washington will call the summit a success simply because the 19 hung together. But the unity doesn't extend much beyond a consensus that the best thing these nations can do is hang together--for now. There are hints of cracks to come. Some of the allies are worried that NATO is dangerously remiss in failing to rev up planning for a ground campaign. Still others--recoiling from the live possibility of putting "our boys" on Balkan ground--are pressing for any negotiated...