China First!

"China First! To all Pakistanis:  When Beijing Olympics came under attack, a Chinese mountaineer took the torch to Mount Everest. There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese-Americans and British-Americans. But not one came out to stage-managed...

World’s Highest Garbage Dump

What is Mount Everest? The highest mountain in the world you will answer. Well it is that, but dismayingly, what Mount Everest is now increasingly being known as is The Worlds’ Highest Garbage dump. It is hard to...

Olympic Torch Post Highlighted in New York Times

A recent Bob McCarty Writes post, featuring a cartoon by David Donar of Political Graffiti, was featured today in The New York Times.A link to Flame in Hand, Chinese Conquer Everest, a post I published Friday, appeared as the last headline listed under the section, Olympic...

What is Sniper’s Role at Mount Everest?

Wired reports that climbers on Mount Everest’s south side are surreptitiously blogging a standoff with Nepalese soldiers ahead of China’s Olympic torch run on the opposite side of the mountain next week....

Business Directory Waste 50 Times Height of Everest

New research has revealed over 17.5 million unwanted printed business directories are delivered to homes in Britain every year, creating a staggering amount of potential waste paper and rapidly becoming a concern for...

Bear Grylls - Adventure...or not?

In an ongoing expose of Bear Grylls, Natalie Clarke of the Daily Mail looks into the self-proclaimed adventure man's claims. On his Discovery Channel show Man vs Wild, Grylls is seen weekly engaging in amazing feats of adventure around the world. But now these feats are...

Motivation through Hardship

"Motivation through Hardship Sometimes, the best lessons and the strongest motivations come from our hardest experiences in life. My friend Quinn Simons and I met in college in Colorado, became fast friends, and did...

Recovery of snow leopard Uncia uncia in Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) National P...

This is great news...The Snow Leopard, Uncia uncia, is returning to the Khumbu (Everest) Region of Nepal! I first reported on this in my blog on August 10, 2006, citing an article I had read in on Nature.com. It is...

The Summit Perspective...

"The Summit Perspective... Think for a moment about a big goal or objective you accomplished in your life. Maybe it was a financial goal, a physical, emotional, or spiritual one. Maybe it was buying a new house,...

Olympic flame to ascend Everest

"The Olympic flame is to be taken to the top of Mount Everest as part of the build-up to the 2008 Games in Beijing"

Volunteers needed for Everest 'lab'

"A group of medics are seeking volunteers to conduct experiments in what they say is the world's highest laboratory - on the slopes of Everest. The Xtreme Everest team will be made up of medics seeking to find out...

50 years later, sunken ship still claiming lives

“It’s called the Mount Everest of diving. It’s such a dangerous depth, but it attracts a lot of interest,”

200 metres from Everest summit, Canadian halts climb to rescue man

"A Calgary woman says she's very proud of her husband for being part of a team that saved an Australian climber who was left for dead on Mount Everest."

Climbers passed man dying on Everest

"Mount Everest pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary said Wednesday he was shocked that dozens of climbers left a British mountaineer to die during their own attempts on the world's tallest peak. David Sharp, 34, died...

Hillary Blasts Climbers Who Left Dying Man

"Mount Everest pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary said Wednesday he was shocked that dozens of climbers left a British mountaineer to die during their own attempts on the world's tallest peak."

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