| TREE CHALLENGE A TOP DAY OUT | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 3:08:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | ARBORIST Paul McCathie is offering people a greener day out with Goodleaf Tree Climbing Adventures and Wight Offroad. Paul, 25, is originally from New Zealand but moved to Seaview with his wife, Abigail, two years ago. They founded Goodleaf Tree Climbing Adventures offering recreational tree climbing — an extreme sport big in the US. The couple has now joined forces with Wight Offroad to offer thrill-seekers the perfect ‘green' day out — a guided mountain bike tour along the Island's hidden paths and bridleways in the morning, followed by a fully instructed climb up into the canopy of a 60ft oak tree in the afternoon. Paul uses specialist equipment that does not damage the tree but which can be adapted to give climbers a good or less energetic workout, making it suitable for all ages to have a go.... | |
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| | | Stallone climbing Moses Mountain? | | Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:11:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | Now that hes won his world title belt back, a new world of opportunity has seemingly opened up for the Boxing Stallion-roo.. And hes getting more audacious by the round. After he pummels some bullets into a few abs in the next Rambo sequel, Sly tells Sabah that hes considering making a movie about the claims of an American genocide. The film is a political hot potato. Turks have been trying to kill the issue for 85 years, Sly, who has also got a film about Edgar Allen Poe in the works, said. 40 Days in the Moses Mountain is based on the book by Franz Werfel and is an epic about the entire termination of a society, says Sly. Amazon tells us that it unfolds the tragedy that befell the Armenian people in the dark year of 1915. The Great War is raging through Europe, and in the ancient, mountainous lands southwest of the Caspian Sea the Turks have begun systematically to exterminate their Christian subjects.... | |
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| | | Reports: Photographer's Body Found On Chinese Mountain | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:09:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | SEATTLE, Wash. -- A snow-covered body found on a remote mountain in China has been identified as US photographer Charlie Fowler, who disappeared several weeks ago during a climbing trip with the owner of a Seattle-based adventure company. Helen Chung, a spokeswoman for adventure company Mountain Madness, said the body found Wednesday was Fowler's, but she had no further information. The company's owner, Christine Boskoff, a top female climber and former Atlantan, was still missing and feared dead. The two climbers were reported missing when they failed to return to the United States on December fourth. The search was initially hampered because they didn't leave details of the route they planned to climb. Searchers eventually located a driver who had dropped them off near 20-thousand, 354-foot Genyen Peak, not far from the Sichuan border with Tibet.... | |
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| | | Ain't no mountain low enough | | Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:18:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Two Dallas men are lost on a snow-covered mountain in Oregon. It's all over the news today. A lot of people are worried about them. We all hope they are OK. I just don't get it. Mountain climbing, rock climbing, anything climbing, are things I've never understood. It takes everything I've got to climb out of bed in the morning. So, as I understand it, you climb up to the top of a mountain, give your buddies the high-five, take a picture and climb back down? All I can figure is, it must be like running a marathon. Of course, I've never done it myself, but everyone I know who has done it says it's painful. Very painful. I guess the good part comes when you stop running a marathon or climbing a mountain. .... | |
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| | | Nature moves a mountain, to everyone's astonishment | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 3:37:51 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nobody was closer to this week's destructive flooding at Mount Rainier National Park than climbing ranger Mike Gauthier. Gauthier woke up at his Longmire cabin Monday and Tuesday mornings to the roar of the Nisqually River eating away at its banks. "It sounded like a freight train," Gauthier said. "And the air was filled with the smell of cedar as trees were just getting churned up in the river. I've never seen anything like it." With floodwaters dropping Wednesday, park officials started assessing the damage that led to the first complete park closure since the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Park superintendent Dave Uberuaga said it could take as long as a week to determine the cost of repairs and how long they'll take. "But my gut reaction is that we potentially can be back to normal before Christmas," said Uberuaga, who also hopes Highway 410 will open before Thanksgiving.... | |
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| | | Gil: Come fly with me! | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:40:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | I RECENTLY flew to Manila -- after three months of being away from family -- to take a much-needed break from life. And for some reason or other, I have become more keenly sensitive to the inevitable conditions of traveling, such as checking in and so on. Perhaps such insights are brought about by graceful dementia, more commonly known as aging. .... | |
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| | | High anxiety: The quest for Everest | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:28:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | Huddled in a tent above 27,000 feet, Dr. Terry O'Connor told a climbing partner that getting to the top of the world's highest peak wasn't the reason he joined the Discovery Channel's 2006 expedition to climb Mount Everest. The men agreed the experience of being part of the expedition, getting to know fellow climbers and Sherpa guides, and experiencing one of the most amazing places on Earth was more important than reaching the summit, O'Connor recalls. "In regards to the climb, the summit was all butter," says O'Connor, 31, a resident emergency room physician at OHSU Hospital in Portland. "Getting there is part luck. You can't predict what's going to happen. You can be doing so great, and in 30 seconds it can turn on you -- a rock falls, you slip, you go blind." O'Connor was one of the fortunate ones, reaching the top this year during the second-deadliest and one of the most controversial climbing seasons on record.... | |
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| | | Docs to raise cash climbing roof of Africa | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:33:10 AM by Blog57 Team | | TWO neonatal consultant doctors are taking on the highest free- standing mountain in the world to raise money for their unit. Wilf Kelsall, 48, and Jag Ahluwalia, 44, say they are looking forward to the challenge of climbing to the 19,000ft summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, known as the roof top of Africa. The pair work at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Addenbrooke's Hospital and are hoping to raise as much money as they can for new equipment. With just three months until they set off on the five- day expedition a thorough and intense training regime is in place. So far they have managed to scale the south face of the notoriously gently sloped Gog Magog Hills. Dr Kelsall joked he had even managed to walk his boots in around the perfectly flat Wicken Fen.... | |
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| | | Freed climber fights for life in hospital | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:17:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | Emergency personnel tried for hours to revive a man who was buried in an icy prison after getting caught in an avalanche while climbing Fortress Mountain yesterday afternoon. Foothills Emergency Medical Services spokesman Darcy Alder said rescuers believe the 25-year-old man, who was trapped under 1.5 m of snow, may have been buried for as long as 90 minutes. The climber was flown from Kananaskis Country to the city hospital by Alpine Helicopters. Upon arriving in Calgary, paramedics handed the victim to hospital staff, who put the climber on heart and lung machines and continued resuscitation efforts, Alder said. The fact the victim is young and athletic, and went hypothermic quickly after being buried, will give the climber a better chance of survival, said Alder.... | |
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| | | New WVU Program Gives Students a Lesson in the Mountain State | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:20:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | Adventure West Virginia aims to breakdown sterotypes about the state. Story by April Kaull Email | Bio MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University is trying to dispell some of the negative stereotypes that incoming freshman might have about the state. Students are taking part in a program called Adventure West Virginia. They travel the state, whitewater rafting, rock climbing and participating in other outdoor activities. The students also get involved in community services projects around West Virginia. This allows them to meet people and learn more about the state. This is one of the only programs of its kind in the nation. .... | |
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