| When a Mountaintop Might as Well Have Been the Moon When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa guide, stood on the summit of Mount Everest, it seems as if they were making the last “giant leap for mankind” of pre-space-age generations. nytimes.com |
His Perennial Plea: Just Let Us Climb In New Jersey, an advocate for rock climbers has been pressing the state to allow more access and drop certain restrictions. nytimes.com |
Wyoming: Falling Rock Kills School Director The Rocky Mountain director of the National Outdoor Leadership School, Pete Absolon, died in a climbing accident. nytimes.com |
At Least 9 Climbers Die on Pakistan’s K-2 Mountain An avalanche struck the climbers on a gully at a height of nearly 27,000 feet, just below the summit of the world’s second highest peak. nytimes.com |
For Rock-Climbing Guru, the Sky Is His Roof Charles Victor Tucker III, the harmless and stoned jester of the mountains to some and the scourge of Yosemite National Park to others, is better known as Chongo, a rock climber who wrote books on physics and now sleeps under a tractor-trailer. nytimes.com |