No Fact Zone.Net (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
EPISODE NUMBER: 5091 (July 2, 2009) GUEST: Ed Viesturs SEGMENTS: The WØRD: Ban de Soleil, Colbert Report ReReport – Lost Treasures of Babylon VIDEOS: Thursday, July 2, 2009 What a wonderfully funny show to send us off towards a week of reruns! Did anyone notice that Stephen had a full head of hair when he was trying to interview [...]
Stop Her She's Knitting (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Oh, it is Friday again! Woo Hoo!!! Remember to click on the above picture to go over to Conversion Diary and then take endless hours reading, and enjoying all the things that we have been doing. -1- Text exchange this week between myself and Progeny #1 Cartoonist : I made food today:D with a frying pan and everything Me : My heart may not be able to take the shock! Cartoonist : And it didn't stink!!!...
SeaTown Sports (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
On July 5th, Seahawks Head Coach Jim Mora and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, will be climbing Mt. Rainier to raise money for United Way King County's Response for Basic Needs . Check out this website for updates as they climb, along with a link to donate money to the cause. In a unique fundraising event, Seahawks Head Coach Jim Mora, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and United Way of King County CEO...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Seahawks coach Jim Mora are ready for a big trek — up Mount Rainier. Mountaineering great Ed Viesturs will lead the climb to the 14,411-foot peak beginning Saturday. It is expected to take three days. For months, Goodell, a star high school athlete in New York state, has been running up and down 50 flights of stairs inside a building in New York — or running...
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analys (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
The Wall Street Journal is reporting Kodak to Take Kodachrome Away . Kodachrome, the storied camera film that has documented historic events and everyday lives since the Great Depression, is about to fade into oblivion. Amid a long-running shift to digital photography, Eastman Kodak Co. said Monday that because of plunging sales, it is ending production of the film it first introduced in 1935. The...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Seahawks coach Jim Mora are ready for a big trek - up Mount Rainier. Mountaineering great Ed Viesturs will lead the climb up the more than 14,000-foot peak July 5. The group hopes to plant a flag at the summit three days later. The climb is to benefit the United Way of King County, Washington.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will be part of the group that mountaineer Ed Viesturs plans to lead to the top of Mount Rainier. Seahawks coach Jim Mora and CEO Tod Leiweke will also be on the trip, which departs July 5. The trip will raise funds for the United Way's "Response for Basic Needs" fund.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Seahawks coach Jim Mora, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and mountaineering legend Ed Viesturs plan to climb Mount Rainier in early July.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Seahawks coach Jim Mora, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and mountaineering legend Ed Viesturs plan to climb Mount Rainier.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
SEATTLE -- Seahawks coach Jim Mora, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and mountaineering legend Ed Viesturs plan to climb Mount Rainier.
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
Go away. Why won't you go away? Is it such a big thing that I ask? It's not as if I beg for money votes or any such nonsense. All I want is solitude. But you stay here. Why? Oh, you came here for something and you won't leave without it. And that something would be...? Ah, yes, a reading. WElllll, I think I can accommodate you, if you can promise to leave when you get it. You do? Wonderful! Here you...
Getoutdoors.com Outdoor Blog (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
Not to beat a dead horse, and however much it pains me to agree with eBomb , but Eddie Bauer missed a golden opportunity to sponsor and associate their brand with something worthy of the hyperbole of the First Ascent brand, specifically the quest to climb all 14 8000 meter peaks by the top 3 female mountain climbers in the world. They're all within striking distance. Eburne and Gerlinde more so than...
NASA Watch (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
"But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why thirty five years ago fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize...
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
… of Nepal and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand become the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (29,035 feet/8,850 meters) 56 years ago today. The mountain is called Chomolungma (”goddess mother of the world”) in Tibet and Sagarmatha (”goddess of the sky”) in Nepal. It’s growing/moving about 6 cm a year. [...]
英文人行道 et cetera, et cetera (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
On May 29, 1953, Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit. sherpa Meaning #1 : a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers
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