Word: himalayan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such experience does not come cheaply. The Jerusalem program costs $1,800 plus airfare; Brown's Himalayan adventure, $3,000; and Union College's medical tour...
Khan lives a reclusive life with his family and the few students who study with him, on his estate in northern India at the foot of the Himalayan Mountains. One of his favorite topics is his home-grown produce and simple rural lifestyle...
Built in 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration, the camp was originally called Hi-Catoctin. Franklin D. Roosevelt renamed it Shangri-La (after the Himalayan paradise in James Hilton's bestseller of that era) when he chose it for his summer retreat. As F.D.R.'s son Elliott Roosevelt recalled, the camp at that time "looked more like a Marine training camp made up of rough pine cabins, but it suited Father down to the ground?metal bed, bathroom door that refused to shut tight, bare walls ornamented only with some of his favorite cartoons...
Mount Rainier, where Everest Climber Jim Whittaker took the members of his 1975 K-2 expedition for some pre-Himalayan conditioning. They can also try their skills on Yosemite's Rixon's pinnacle, a rock spire where an urban alpinist named George Willig developed the confidence that enabled him to conquer Manhattan's World Trade Center. Would-be birdmen can launch their hang gliders from Yosemite's Glacier Point for a 3,500-ft. descent to the park floor. Fishermen can cast their flies -and hopes-after the three-pound rainbow and cutthroat trout that make...
...involved in the controversy agree that the original plan would require the destruction of at least four weeping cherry trees and two Himalayan cedars...