Two days and a shave after returning from the top of the world, Gov. Bill Ritter says he remains convinced in his plans to deal with climate change at the state level.
Ritter and dozens of climate experts, political figures, non-profit managers, business leaders and clergy completed a week-long trip this past weekend to the Norwegian [...]
A Calgary mountain climber who reached the peak of Mount Everest last week started his journey home from Nepal on Friday.
Andrew Brash, a high school teacher, successfully summited on May 23 in his second attempt to reach the top of the world’s highest mountain.
In 2006, he was 200 metres from the peak when he cut [...]
His picture hangs in the Sherpa museum, above the terraced village of Namche Bazaar, and almost everyone in the Solu-Khumbu valley knows who he is. He is stopped often, sometimes by people just wanting to shake his hand. A Western climber we meet on the trail stops to hug him. She tells us confidently, You [...]
A day in the park with a difference
Childhood gift of adventure
A great man rests
Vincent Stardust gets last farewell
Message that meant so much
%26bull; Full coverage: Sir Ed Hillary
They came not from a dignitary or a notable, but from within the crowd of ordinary New Zealanders who gathered outside St Marys in Parnell, Auckland, yesterday as the [...]
