TOP 100 CLIMBING SITES
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| Ever Upward, No Matter What Featuring exceptional people doing extraordinary things, “Blindsight” is one of those documentaries with the power to make you re-examine your entire life. movies.nytimes.com |
Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88 Sir Edmund Hillary was the mountaineer who, with his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale Mount Everest. nytimes.com |
Finding Philosophy on the Side of a Cliff When reaching the top means using fingernails, ropes, harnesses, a helmet and climbing shoes. nytimes.com |
New Heart’s New Height The heart transplant survivor Kelly Perkins has added another first to her long string of mountaineering feats since getting a new heart 13 years ago a dangerous climb up a sheer, 2,000-foot face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park’s famed granite monolith. nytimes.com |
The Descent of Men Mountaineering has become more dangerous as the traditional expeditionary culture, which had emphasized mutual responsibility, gave way to an ethos stressing self-preservation. nytimes.com |