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Then, on Aug. 1, they made the daunting decision to try to summit Latok II. There had been 25 previous attempts to scale the 23,300-ft. (7,100 m) mountain, all of them unsuccessful. "They were doing the purest kind of climbing," says Alfonso Hernández, a reporter...
But it took more than a couple of days before a rescue effort could even be organized. For one thing, there were few experienced climbers in the area who were acclimated enough to the altitude to begin a rescue. Bad weather and difficult terrain forced several helicopters sent out to...
• Filed a lawsuit on behalf of unsuccessful presidential candidate Alan Keyes on Nov. 13, 2008, suing California's secretary of state for failing to investigate Obama's eligibility for President before placing him on the ballot. The case is still pending.
Last year, pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko irked the Russian Orthodox leadership with an unsuccessful attempt to unite both patriarchates in Ukraine into one independent church, without involvement from Moscow. Kirill, too, would like to see both branches united, but not in a way that would satisfy Yushchenko - last week...
B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann must be felicitated by mankind for their attempt to create cold fusion - to reproduce the energy of the Sun. They may have been unsuccessful and eventually faded into obscurity, but their contribution in the field of cold fusion will always enlighten researchers. It is...