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German gets jailed for hiking naked
It seems like naked hiking would be terribly uncomfortable, since backpack chafing is a problem even while wearing a shirt.This story got front page coverage in Russia's Pravda.ru. Human interest at its best."Ten...
created by IsraeliLawStudent | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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945 views | 12 recommendations | 3 comments
How to grow a mountain (just add water)
Here's an odd discovery: mountains that experience heavy rainfall actually grow because of it, scientists say. My first guess was that it was due to a build-up of plant life and compacting soil over millions of...
created by Rob Peters | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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970 views | 15 recommendations | 15 comments
Canada: The Foreign Minister and the Femme Fatale
" Until recently, Maxime Bernier, Canada's foreign minister, led an enviable lifestyle, at least in the eyes of most men my age. He was an elegant fellow in his mid forties, a dapper dandy who traveled a lot...
created by sweet east pearl | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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153 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Newmarket senior arrives home from Everest climb
"While Werner Berger was summiting Mount Everest last month, most people his age would have considered themselves lucky enough to still be able to make it around a golf course. The 69-year-old resident of...Ed Viesturs and Dreams
"Ed Viesturs and Dreams I went to see Ed Viesturs at the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver last night. Ed was there to promote his new book, No Shortcuts to the Top, which details his quest (called Endeavor 8000) to climb the fourteen 8000 meter (26,000+ foot) peaks without...Why do we climb? Because it's there?
"Why do we climb? Because it's there? I recently read and commented on an interesting article on Blog Critics entitled Mount Everest is Man's Mental Achilles Heel. While the author raises some good points, it made...Japan PM Abe's N. Asian summits set scene for thaw
Abe will be making a start -- welcome in the region and in Washington -- on repairing bilateral ties frayed by predecessor Junichiro Koizumi's visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which is seen by critics as a... *Amero* To Be The New Money Of The Americas
"to steal what little wealth and security you have left by replacing
worthless federal reserve notes with Ameros—that will be worth even
less—and to reduce the American people to serfs"."Bush's publicity
stunt pretending to protect our borders is worse than a... Experienced California Mountaineer Dies on Mt. Mendel
"n the world of California mountaineering, Patricia Rambert was closing in on the Holy Grail. The 57-year-old Laguna Hills woman had just 39 peaks to "bag" before making a clean sweep of the 247 summits that climbing enthusiasts consider the most notable in the Sierra...NowPublic on Facebook
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