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...prevent escapes. While there are occasional reports of border guards firing on refugees, this is the first time such an incident has been widely witnessed. Xinhua, China's state-run news service, quoted an unnamed official claiming that the guards were "forced to defend themselves." But Sergiu Matei, a climber and cameraman for Romania's ProTV, which later broadcast his footage of the shooting, asserts: "That was not self-defense. [The refugees] were clearly passing through Nangpa La and running from the police, who shot them like dogs...
...Everest, Noguchi noticed that the growing ranks of fellow mountaineers left piles of discarded climbing gear and trash?much of the rubbish bearing Chinese, Korean or Japanese labels. When a European climber noted in passing that "Japan is a developed country, but without any manners," Noguchi decided something had to be done. Returning to Everest in 2000, he climbed the mountain four times over the next four years with an international team that cleared nearly eight tons of waste from its slopes, including more than 400 discarded oxygen containers. Local Nepalese villagers didn't see the point of the project...
...Breithorn, in the Swiss Alps, with the help of a robotic power suit named HAL (for Hybrid Assistive Limb, not to be confused with the homicidal HAL 9000 computer in 2001). Starting at 3,800 m, he hitched a ride up the mountain on the back of his friend, climber Takeshi Matsumoto, who wore the computerized exoskeleton built by Japanese tech firm Cyberdyne (not to be confused with the fictional Cyberdyne Systems, which created the killer robots of the Terminator movies). The suit mimics a user's motions by detecting the bioelectrical nerve signals that control muscles, and its servo...
...never seen the guy,” Osborne said. “The amount of money you pay, the amount of effort you put in. You want to summit.”Media reports lauded Hall’s rescue, contrasting it to the recent death of British climber David Sharp. Just last month, the 34 year-old was left to die on the side of a pass as around 40 climbers trekked by. No one gave up the summit to see that he survived.Osborne says such an act is “bullshit...
...route to the summit, a steeper and more challenging path than the more frequently traveled “South Col” route, according to Osborne. Yet, Mt. Everest, towering at 29,000 feet on the border of Nepal and Tibet, is a challenge for even the most experienced climber. In the past half-century, 13 percent of all who braved the challenge died—178 out of 1373 climbs resulted in deaths, according to a 2004 New York Times article. “Everest is no walk in the park,” said Corey M. Rennell...