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Wall Street Journal
New on the Travel Scene
Wall Street Journal
Raft a remote stretch of river in Papua New Guinea, trek paths traced only by locals and film crews in Tanzania's Mbarika Mountains or rappel down a 741-foot-high waterfall in South America. The third trip lasts 10 days and starts in Guyana, ...


 
No more room at the top of Everest
The Independent
Mr Cool told the BBC, as he started his descent down the mountain. "Getting to the top is optional but getting back down is mandatory." Mr Cool and his team had set off early to make the best of the friendly weather and return safely to Camp IV, ...

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Macleans.ca
Everest: 'The open graveyard waiting above'
Macleans.ca
About 50 of those dead bodies have been recovered and brought down from the mountain — always at extreme cost, sometimes at the expense of others' lives. The rest are still on the mountain. Some are lost forever in crevasses or blown over sheer drops ...
Perilous task ahead for sherpas trying to recover climber's bodyGlobe and Mail
Reclaiming the dead on Mt. EverestCBC.ca
Vancouver men recount death-defying trip up EverestCTV.ca
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4 fighters with Arizona ties ready for UFC 146
AZ Central.com
"It hurts your momentum, when you lose after a four-, five-fight win streak, you go tumbling back down the mountain," Kingsbury said. "I want to be back near the top. I want to be a fighter that people want to watch." Then there's Glendale native Jamie ...

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Houston Chronicle (blog)
The Jewish holiday of Shavuot and God's magical penmanship
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Along the way, there's a curious verse which almost reads as an editor's note, as Moses descends the mountain. “And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two Tablets of the Testimony were in his hand — tablets which were written from ...

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It rolls downhill: Tackling Denali's poo issue
Anchorage Press
Denali turns into something of a zoo during these months; both Base Camp on the Kahiltna glacier, and “Fourteen Camp” at the 14000-foot level become ephemeral tent cities as hundreds of climbers from around the world move up and down the mountain.


 
AirForceTimes.com
Ejection seat from 1963 B-52 bomber crash recovered from Maine woods
WMTW Portland
Bruce Reed says he found the seat last fall while hunting along a remote section of Elephant Mountain. On Thursday, Reed led a group of five rangers to the site and carried the seat off the mountain, down rugged terrain. "It's kind of eerie because ...
Unanswered questions return with recovery of ejection seat from B-52 bomber ...Lewiston Sun Journal
Forest Rangers recover a lost piece of HistoryWLBZ-TV

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