| China: Body of U.S. Climber Recovered Rescuers recovered the body of a second climber on Monday after an avalanche buried a team of three American mountaineers in southwestern China last week. nytimes.com |
‘Julie & Julia’ for the Rugged: Tracing a Fatal Everest Trek “The Wildest Dream,” a documentary scheduled for release next spring, tracks a mountaineer’s attempt to mirror an ill-fated 1924 climbing expedition on Mount Everest. nytimes.com |
Korean Is First Woman to Scale 14 Highest Peaks South Korea reacted with pride after Oh Eun-sun reached the summit of Annapurna in Nepal. nytimes.com |
Avalanches Kill 7 in Northern Italy Three rescuers were among the dead in one accident, and a 14-year-old German skier died in another. nytimes.com |
Conquering 46-Part Goal, Peak by Icy Peak For the Adirondack Winter Forty-Sixers, an elite group of mountain hikers, winter is the time to tackle the region’s 46 highest summits. nytimes.com |