Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard will travel to Rhode Island tomorrow for a double-header against Providence. Vermont 0 Harvard...
...Anybody can field a [women's] team, but are they getting the same luxuries, same travel schedule [as a men's team]?" she asked...
Thirty expeditions of various sizes and degrees of competence were somewhere on the mountain at the time. Ten of these were commercial ventures, run by professional adventure-travel guides, whose clients, some experienced climbers and some not, paid as much as $65,000 or $70,000 a head to be led up the world's highest peak. "With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill," said New Zealander Rob Hall, a respected climber who headed Adventure Consultants, the best-known of the guiding outfits. Hall added, in a comment that was to echo mournfully, "The trick...
Arguments about the ethics and common sense of such guided ascents had been wafting about the world's always contentious mountaineering community. No question: some clients were inept fools and a danger to everyone. Mountaineering was in danger of becoming an extreme sport for the rich, with gaudy adventure-travel stunts such as being guided up the highest mountain on each continent. A New York society woman named Sandy Hill Pittman was on hand to complete this cycle, along with masses of electronic equipment lugged by Sherpas, including a satellite phone with which she intended to file Internet dispatches from...
...defending national champion Radcliffe lightweight team will also travel to Dartmouth, but will only face Syracuse in a neutral site race...