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DIED. JOHN CHAMBERS, 78, makeup artist who created the pointy ears for Leonard Nimoy's Mr. Spock on Star Trek; of diabetes complications; in Los Angeles. Chambers' makeup jobs included the 1968 Planet of the Apes, for which he won an honorary Oscar, and the television shows Lost in Space and The Munsters...
...There are many walks to choose from. The Buran Pass trek is typical: the path snakes between the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal and ends by leading the walker down into the fearsome gorge of the mighty Sutlej River as it rushes down from Tibet. The hike can only be done in early summer after the snows melt and before the monsoon turns the mountains to mud. On the other side of the pass, trekkers must traverse a glacier after being linked together with ropes. We safely slid the last 200 m to the bottom, but our stores, which...
...Because trekking is in its infancy in India, many routes are new. Trek organizers are yet to grade them, and in any case are unlikely to say anything to discourage you. So you're only likely to find how tough it's going to be when you reach your first precipice. Unless you're a professional athlete or a goatherd, you can expect aches and pains. But this is the Himalayas, their people and the air at their most raw. Naked nature. There's a purity to these paths. Everything else is just pavement...
...race marks the beginning of a much longer journey for Adam and 15 of the village men - a six-month-long, 1500-mile caravan trek from their home in Timia, across the desert, to the salt oasis of Bilma. After collecting a load of Bilma's salt, which still occurs in the form of upright pillars as described in the Bible, the group will head south for Nigeria, where they will sell their cargo to Hausa traders. It is an age-old example of the "comparative advantage" theory of international trade: the salt farmers, the transporters and the traders each...
...then stop as the sun sets and feed the camels before eating their own meal, usually more porridge or dried fruit. "The worst thing is when you run out of pasture and the animals get tired," says Adam's uncle, Ebuche Saghdou, who made his first salt trek 30 years ago at age 17. "They can last up to a week without water but without pasture they are not strong. You must leave them...