Word: summiteers
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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...
...agree with the younger Mallory in his reluctance to have the hunt for the "true" first summit become so central a component of Everest lore. It's understandable that modern climbers are curious about the men who tried to reach the top of the tallest mountain in nothing but tweeds and spiked shoes with only the most basic oxygen containers to help them, but to emphasize the success or failure of Mallory's expedition is to deflect the focus from what he has been most remembered for over the last several decades...
...climbers dispatch their latest findings, but there is a commercial quality to it which is disturbing. Those of us interested in the stories of those who have attempted (successfully or unsuccessfully) to climb Everest are fascinated by the idea of the physical and mental strength required to attempt the summit...
Peace in Kosovo will be all things to all people -- or, more specifically, the deal designed to end hostilities will allow all sides to claim victory. That much was clear from the peace plan agreed to by leading NATO countries and Russia at a summit of foreign ministers in Germany on Thursday. The agreement provides for an end to violence and repression in Kosovo; the withdrawal of Serb security forces; the deployment of ill-defined "international civil and security presences" under mandate from the United Nations; the safe return of refugees under the auspices of a U.N. interim administration...