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Good movie, but not worth paying movie prices, wait for the DVD

sources:

http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/19-general/10346-fishtail-air-helicopter-crashes-in-solukhumbu-two-crewmembers-killed.html

http://www.zeenews.com/news666363.html

Is this a member of this board?

I remember reading a trip report on here a while ago of an Orchestra member climbing Fuji...

Unfortunately the link I bookmarked doesn't work anymore:
http://www.summitpost.org/trip-report/6 ... onies.html

Members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra are deeply shocked after the death of one of their members during a hiking trip in Japan yesterday (Weds).

The world-famous orchestra announced today that 41 year old ...

Pepsi Refresh Grant Competition

The Southeastern Climbers Coalition asks for YOUR help to secure access to 2 excellent crags currently closed to climbing. We have entered the Pepsi Refresh Project grant competition at the $250,000 level. The winners are determined by public e-voting. If we win, and that is entirely up to YOU, the SCC will use the money to secure access to climbing areas in Alabama and Tennessee. The specific locations cannot be disclosed ...

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010 ... again.html :cry:

http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/10/28/28961506.html :shock:

Now SPers can stay in touch from Everest basecamp. 8)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101028/lf_nm_life/us_nepal_everest_internet

Joe Puryear has been killed climbing in Tibet.

http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web10f/news ... oe-puryear

With a long thread at: http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum ... d-in-Tibet

In recent years Joe and his climbing partner Dave Gottlieb had been doing the kind of climbs that most people only talk about - FA of Kang Nachugo, FA of Jobo Ribjang, PFA of Trakargo and more. Their climbs were inspirational to many of ...

http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13397340

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego County firefighters have a new weapon: Webcams.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Tuesday that about 50 webcams are broadcasting from mountaintops, including 16 high-resolution cameras installed over the past few weeks. The images are refreshed every two minutes.

The high-def cameras were installed for the fall fire season under the FireSight program. They're funded by a $36,000 grant from the county Board ...

From UK's The Telegraph. Unfortunately it has a bothersome pop-up ad, unless you have a really good blocker.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/pictu ... -Chin.html