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• News in Asia

  
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  This week’s edition of “News in Asia” is having computer problems. Actually, it’s having Internet connectivity problems. One of the things I miss most about living in South Korea is Internet speed. I could download an episode of Scandal  in 3 minutes and an entire season of a show in about 10-15. Ah well, ...
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• Raha Moharrak Becomes First Saudi Woman To Climb Mt. Everest

  
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  Filed under: Climbing , Hiking , Asia , Nepal , Saudi Arabia , Middle East Raha Moharrak Raha Moharrak has become the first woman from Saudi Arabia to climb Mt. Everest when she made it to the summit yesterday after a grueling climb. The 25-year-old climber first had to convince her family to allow ...
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• K2: Siren of the Himalayas to premier May 24-27

  
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• Cool Shit 5/3

  
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  Being Jewish in prison. It doesnt sound like too much fun. Tequila ! Its not just for sucking down a briny, cured worm. And speaking of tequila (and alcohol in general), heres a list of 25 cocktails you should know about to be a sophisticated gentleman or lady. Fridays are the perfect days for websites like ...
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• Fight on Everest between Sherpas and Western climbers.

  
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  Being woken up on a frosty morning at first light by Ang Tharkay (below)  with a mug of hot tea at his farm, south of Kathmandu, on 23 April  1975, is a memory that remains vivid in my mind. With a broad smile he handed me the tea, made in the Sherpa manner with tea, sugar and milk boiled together. He greeted ...
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• The Vast Unknown

  
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  The fact remains that the first American go at Everest will be an event. If we succeed, it will be a feather in our cap, a booster to our prestige, a refutation beyond argument of our detractor’s taunt that we are a nation gone soft and gutless. If we do not, we will at least have entered the arena, joined the rest ...
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• A Life on the Edge: An Interview with Jim Whittaker

  
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  Nobody has a better businesscard than Jim Whittaker. The business side is low-key: Asimple, stylized mountain logo, his name, and the words “Adventurer, Author,Speaker.” But turn it over and youllfind a picture of Whittaker--or "Big Jim," as he was known then andever since--standing astride the summit of the ...
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• No Fighting on Everest

  
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  This weekend, I was struck by a news story reporting a fight near the top of Mount Everest between climbers and their Nepalese sherpas. A brawl at more than 25,000 feet, close to the summit (29,029 feet)? You’ve gotta be kidding me . I’ve hiked Mt. Whitney and know what conditions are like at around 14,500…and ...
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