Strike Update: Week 12 is well underway and still no light at the end of the tunnel. I read in the local paper about some new trash mountains forming at the entrance to the CUPE union headquarters in Windsor....
created by skintone | 10 wks ago | updated 1 day ago 2077 views | 18 recommendations | 14 comments
President Obama has put forward his budget for the new energy policy, but critics say that he hasn't put any money aside to decide what to do with the the highly toxic nuclear waste that currently exists. ""The...
created by amyjudd | 17 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago 242 views | 16 recommendations | 3 comments
On January 11, I was on my tour to the Xiling Snow Mountain, a scenic resort located in the west of Chengdu in southwestern China, which is called "Oriental Alps" by some people. There I heard a moving story...
created by CDpanda | 17 wks ago 631 views | 0 recommendations | 34 comments
As the countdown clock ticked past 365 days Wednesday night celebrations began across the lower mainland and Whistler. The IOC and VANOC planned several events centered around the 2010 Games to...
created by TFleming | 20 wks ago | updated 20 wks ago 168 views | 3 recommendations | 0 comments
This tragedy is still recent and not all of the information is available according to Turkish government sources. " An avalanche killed at least 10 people as they hiked on a mountain in northeastern Turkey on Sunday, the region's governor said. There were...
Of the 300,000 people in Peru, 37.7% live on less than US$1 per day. The typical salary in Peru is about $150 per month. Families cannot live on so little income, so many families have started very small...
created by mtnfund | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago 294 views | 10 recommendations | 6 comments
Ausangate, PERU - The Mountain Fund is building a new, lost-cost health care clinic. Access to health care, while improving in many areas, is still limited in many parts of Peru. This is especially true...
created by mtnfund | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago 232 views | 22 recommendations | 2 comments
The Gho-Ngag Dhargye Mangche Gompa Monastery was built 350 years ago by solely one man: Garwang Rinpoche. It took him 12 years to build it. It sits a little ways off from the village proper of Thulo Syabru, Nepal,...
created by mtnfund | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago 90 views | 15 recommendations | 2 comments
In Kathmandu, Nepal, many married and some unmarried women are abused on a daily basis. A recent Foreign Policy news report, dated May 2008, has published a list of "The Worst Places to be a Woman," where...
created by mtnfund | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago 323 views | 43 recommendations | 5 comments
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...
One person is dead after an avalanche at the Jackson Hole Ski and Mountain Resort, located just south of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. According to the Jackson Hole News the avalanche occurred on the ski...
created by amyjudd | 26 wks ago | updated 26 wks ago 2600 views | 11 recommendations | 8 comments
So I wake up this morning and see there is snow from Palmdale to Malibu. Plus a helicopter accident and traffic backed up for hours. Is this global warming, or global cooling?"December 18, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) Car accident lawyers in Los Angeles, California have...
created by panzerlawyer | 28 wks ago | updated 28 wks ago 311 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Mark your calendars! 5th to 7th December 2008 in Krakow, Poland. VI KFG - 6th Krakow Mountain Film Festival.We would like to invite you to the biggest annual mountaineering event in Poland - the 6th Krakow...
created by himalman | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 109 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Whistler Blackcomb represents everything that an avid boarder like myself could hope for. It has seemingly endless acreage, glaciers, a world renowned terrain park and on top of that a...
created by TFleming | 31 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 232 views | 10 recommendations | 7 comments
The Bark Beetle, or Pine Beetle, from New Mexico to British Columbia, is destroying forests faster than people can even attempt to save them. Green forests are turning to red as trees die and the beetles move...
created by amyjudd | 32 wks ago | updated 31 wks ago 1268 views | 25 recommendations | 11 comments