TOP 100 CLIMBING SITES
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| Shares rise after US rate cut (Sydney Morning Herald) An interest rate cut in the United States and climbing oil and metals prices have helped to push the Australian share market more than one per cent higher this morning. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Coffee with: Laurie Thatcher (Bozeman Daily Chronicle) Laurie Thatcher makes it sound like she got into triathlons on a whim. Driving through Coeur d'Alene four years ago, she saw the Ironman competition, and decided she had to do it. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Meet the first woman from J%26K to climb Mount Everest (IBN via Yahoo! India News) Tsering Lahdol is the first woman from Jammu and Kashmir to climb Mount Everest at the age of 19 in 2005. Coming from a nomadic tribe in the remote Changthan area of Ladakh, Lahdol, the eldest of seven siblings, has also scaled the Siachen glacier with the Army. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Exotic pursuit lifts Kauto Star to exalted level (Independent) Any hill, rising from a plain, can dominate the landscape, but the greatest peaks break from the crags of other mountains. So while Kauto Star may have finished only half a length in front of Exotic Dancer at Haydock on Saturday, he can be measured as Mont Blanc against the Matterhorn. In the same way, it took Mill House to disclose the true altitude of Arkle, still the Everest among ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
New photographs of glaciers in the Mt. Everest region of Nepal, when compared with old photographs of the same ... (Everest News) New photographs of glaciers in the Mt. Everest region of Nepal, when compared with old photographs of the same locations show a world of melting glaciers and changing landscapes. They can also give practical insights and tools for adapting to these changes. us.rd.yahoo.com |