July 01, 2009 The Hardest Part of an Everest Expedition NOTE: This is a blog entry I wrote during this spring's First Ascent "Return to Everest" expedition. It never ran on the blog though, so I thought I'd post it here as it speaks from the heart - or at least from my...
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Now that Tweets have made their way to the Twitterverse all the way from outer space, it's hard to come up with fancy ways to update your microblog...unless you're an astronaut or a mountaineer ascending the sheer...
A UN report shows that there are over 4.1 billion mobile subscriptions around the world - that's about 60% of the world's population. The increase in use has been particularly large in areas where tradtionally...
The story says it is an 11 day walk in - but why not drive " It would be difficult to find someone who would classify cricket as an extreme sport, but an adventurous group of cricketers are taking the game...
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At 27,559ft in winds blowing above 20-knots a British doctor drops his trousers not out of any sexual need to expose his privates to the elements on the highest mountain in the world but in the name of medical...
"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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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"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,...
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