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"Storm Over Everest" (9 p.m. Tuesday, WTTW-Ch. 11) is an undoubtedly beautiful and interesting film. But as participants of the disastrous May 10, 1996, Mt. Everest expedition recount the deaths of their friends and their agonies as a storm raged around them, they remained mostly dry-eyed. One...
Message by Gordan CameronHe talks the talk, and today, at least, Saunier-Duval’s mouth from the south walked the walk. As the finishing hills wrecked the peloton all over the road, Riccardo Ricco staked his claim to the Giro with a ballsy win. ... He talks the talk, and...
Visitors haul their gear more than a mile to reach cabins at Tettegouche State Park, and that's precisely what makes the cabins so special. ... By GREG BREINING, Special to the Star Tribune IF YOU GO Plan ahead or be flexible if you hope to reserve one of the four...
A rock climber fell 30 feet to the bottom of a ledge, where he lay for four hours with a broken leg before help arrived. ... The 22-year-old man was climbing with a friend and a relative above a waterfall near Rocky Mountain Trailhead. He grabbed a rock that gave way,...
By FRAZIER MOORE Associated Press What could you learn about reality while immersing yourself for months in virtual reality? Filmmaker ... ... By FRAZIER MOORE Associated Press What could you learn about reality while immersing yourself for months in virtual reality?...
Tears welled in my eyes twice while hiking some of the most beautiful landscapes on the planet -- once in mid-wretch gag and once in awestruck wonder. They were unexpected bookends for a journey that only vaguely resembled the trip I planned for myself and my hiking partner, Ben Yeomans. But...
Paul Elwell, stopped by injury two-thirds of the way up North America's tallest mountain last spring, is returning to the scene of the climb. ... In less than a month, Elwell hopes to make it to the 20,320-foot summit of Mount McKinley, or Denali, as it's always been...
(Bicycling News and Information) Just a little over two hours from New York City is a region so unspoiled so unpolluted that it still supplies fresh water to nine million city dwellers The Catskills may be home to only a few hardy locals this time of year but its an affordable breath of fresh air...
There are two things I insist on doing every time I return home to the Lake District after a long trip away. The first is to climb High Pike, the fell which stands just behind my cottage near Caldbeck. It's a gentle climb and one that my dog, Jessie, and I must have walked a thousand times. The...
TWO of Scotland's leading club rugby players are preparing for the challenge of a lifetime when they attempt to climb Africa's three highest mountains in the space of ... 22 days. Ricky Munday, 31, and Ally Maclay, 24, are raising money for a Kenyan orphanage, which has...
