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...toxins, poisons, carbon dioxides - how long would it take for all that to get reabsorbed, and for nature to really heal itself? - which is really the meat of this book: a backward way of looking at what we do by looking at what nature would do if we weren't here doing it anymore...
...defamation suit. Moreover, Clemens is not the only player who has challenged the report. Lesser lights like ex-outfielder David Justice, relief pitchers Mike Stanton and Brendan Donnelly and others have also disputed the report's claims. Sure, since these players have smaller reputations at stake, their denials weren't as loud as Clemens'. But if one player like Clemens deserves a chance to try to clear his name, don't all the players? "I do not think it's fair to call one or two players," says Shays. "If we're going to call in players, we need...
...which really was completely inadequate for climbing at high altitude in the Himalayas. Even though I had pretty good resistance to cold in my feet, that first trip I definitely had cold feet. But we still made a lot of new summits and we really did extremely well. We weren't using oxygen that trip. The highest mountain we climbed was just over 22,000 feet...
...remember the climb vividly? I remember it pretty vividly. I remember we almost broke down on the Lhotse Face. George and I and the Sherpas were on the Lhotse Face, and we simply weren't making any progress for a week or so. I persuaded John to let Tenzing and me go up and start things moving again, otherwise we simply weren't going to get anywhere and finally he agreed. We did that and we shot up. It was Tenzing, me and Wilf Noyce. We climbed to 24,000 feet, and we sort of got things rolling again...
...married Louise shortly after the Everest expedition. Louise was a good deal younger than I was, but she was a keen mountaineer. She was very much involved in the out-of-doors, and was lots of fun. We did a lot of family treks, we really enjoyed them. They weren't really extreme, they were more camping trips, but pretty energetic trekking. We were very keen that the kids should learn to enjoy the out-of-doors, enjoy swimming and camping and walking around the hills and all the rest of it. But I never at any stage really tried...