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...ERIK WEIHENMAYER. There are no handicapped-parking zones on Mount Everest. Weihenmayer became the first sightless person to reach the 29,035-ft. (8,850-m) summit. A good athlete, he turned to climbing after losing his sight as a young teenager. The trek required him, with the help of his team, to negotiate ladder bridges over bottomless crevices and ascend a peak that kills even the most able mountaineers...
...from Hohhot, the Helan Shan range rises to 3,600 m, and the landscape suddenly blooms with a stunning array of alpine trees, grasses and flowers?an almost overwhelming riot of color for eyes accustomed to the dun of the desert. A new Buddhist temple nestles just below the summit. The Tibetan-style structure, painted in dazzling primary colors, was built to replace the previous temple, which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution...
...quasi-European climate of the region and the exquisite views. Vietnam's highest peak, Mount Fansipan, towers above the town at a height of 3,143 m, lofty enough that it's often shrouded in mist and sometimes sprinkled with snow. Four-day climbing excursions to the summit include tents, porters and sleeping bags, and start at a reasonable $50 per person. Most hikers make the climb in late fall and spring, as the altitude makes it too cold to trek in January and February. Then again, if mountain climbing sounds too dangerous, try a more sedate walk...
...only this summer that the antiglobalization movement, a loose coalition of left-wing activists ranging from hard-core Italian anarchists to strictly nonviolent church types, was among Western leaders' biggest worries. In addition to proving it could shut down any city that hosted a major trade meeting or international summit, the movement was also getting some of its key issues, such as the Tobin Tax on currency trades, into the newspapers and on the international agenda...
...remains an entirely national prerogative. But why rub it in? More than once since Sept. 11, European leaders have seemed eager to do just that. Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schröder and Tony Blair held a minisummit to discuss Afghanistan last month in Ghent, just before a full E.U. summit, but pointedly excluded other member states...