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Bent like an arthritic thumb high above the antarctic ice cap, the mountain's uppermost point was so small and precarious that it could accommodate only one person at a time. So I shivered on a ledge in the subzero breeze and waited for my partners, first Alex and then Conrad, to climb the final 20 ft. to the summit. We'd been on the move for 14 hours. My back hurt, and I had lost all feeling in my toes. But as my eyes wandered across the frozen vastness of Queen Maud Land, a sense of profound contentment radiated...
...geographic North Pole starting in early February with a six-day training session on Baffin Island. In April a party of eight to 15 will fly charter aircraft from Resolute Bay, Nunavut, to within 150 miles of the pole. Then, under a 24-hr. polar sun, in often subzero temperatures, the group will follow Peary's route from 88[degrees] to 90[degrees] north, climbing over walls of ice, crossing expanses of open water on ice blocks bound by ropes, skiing through clouds of drifting snow. Burton Meyer of Downers Grove, Ill., a retired toy designer, first crossed the North...
Ninety minutes later, minus three minutes, I'm standing in subzero conditions outside Holden Chapel. I shake off my jacket and yank off my shorts, and the canvas is unveiled to a motley audience of screaming, shivering students in several stages of undress. Most are too busy to notice me. The men, scattered around the clearing, are undressing clumsily and pumping their fists with alternating wicked grins and nervous glances. The women, gathered in small circles and slowly peeling off one piece after another, smile hesitantly at each other, their arms folded across their chests in symbolic gestures of modesty...
...issue is most contentious at Yellowstone, whose 190 miles of carefully groomed roads make for unsurpassed winter touring. A busy weekend will see 2,000 snowmobilers buzzing the approaches to Old Faithful, their engines filling the subzero air with a cacophony of chain-saw whines and casting a blue haze against the stands of lodgepole pines. "We are turning a national park into a national playground," complains D.J. Schubert, a biologist for the Fund for Animals, which is threatening to sue the Interior Department...
Runyon should tell that to the folks in Livingston, where the fight has reached a pitch that rivals last year's Freemen standoff. In December, volunteers stood outside the post office in subzero weather and gathered 1,500 signatures on an antimove petition. Regional officials in Denver took notice. Postponing the decision to relocate, the Postal Service hired a market-research firm to conduct a telephone survey. However, Cooper and others found it insultingly biased--not a sincere sampling of opinion but the basis for a slick p.r. offensive...