#mount-everest

#mount-everest

A six-year-old boy who went viral for attempting to climb 12 of the highest mountains in the UK to help poorly children to go on holiday has completed his final hike.Oscar Burrow, from Lancaster, reached the top of Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest mountain, on Monday afternoon after around four-and-a-half hours, being welcomed by a bit of snow at the summit.

Layne Pollard, of Gurnee, has a trifecta of milestones hitting around the same time.His doggy day care and grooming business, Central Bark, celebrated its 10-year anniversary this month, and he'll be turning 60 on June 16, just two days before celebrating Father's Day with his family stateside after having hiked Mount Kilimanjaro's 19,341 feet in Tanzania.

Regarding the letter "Carter not the worst" (Feb.25): I have a very simple, maybe selfish, but certainly less subjective method than historians probably use to rank presidents.I ask myself, "Am I better off today than when this person became president?"In the case of President Joe Biden, as of today, my answer in a resounding "no."

Two Nepali Sherpas are taking one-upmanship to an extreme on top of the world.Pasang Dawa Sherpa and Kami Rita Sherpa, decorated mountain guides and friends, have been scaling Mount Everest in rapid succession in recent days in pursuit of the record for most ascents of the world's highest peak.It is a grueling competition with monetary rewards and abundant dangers, turning what is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for most climbers into a repeat performance for the veteran Sherpas.

The Yamnaya people, long associated with horses, are now the earliest known riders.Skeletons from around 3000 B.C.E., unearthed from burial mounds in Eastern Europe, show wear patterns consistent with horseman syndrome, providing the oldest direct evidence of humans on horseback.CHINA The Mamenchisaurus, a massive sauropod, may have once munched treetop leaves in what is now China thanks to its 50-foot neckpossibly the longest of any known animal.

A perfectly spherical explosion, called a kilonova, that followed the merger of two very dense objects called neutron stars, remnants of massive stars after supernova explosions.(Albert Sneppen/Reuters)Two neutron stars moving at 100 million meters per second rammed into one another in space.In what experts called a "cosmic car crash," the stars merged and collapsed to form a black hole - while throwing out fragments that produced a perfectly spherical fireball of blue and red.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Spencer Matthews said he watched footage of his older brother Michael for the first time since he disappeared on Mount Everest in 1999 while making documentary Finding Michael.

What Happened to Ruthie Ramirez (fiction - hardbound) by Claire Jimenez
The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence.When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling.One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spotted a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show.

UCLA did not come here to just give it a good try.Their best defender back home, their top big man watching in a sweatsuit, the Bruins did not back down Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena while severely undermanned in a heavyweight title fight.That much became clear during one stunning sequence late in the first half of the Pac-12 tournament championship.

The inconsistent Miami Heat will look to slow down the red-hot New York Knicks on Friday evening inside Miami-Dade Arena at 8 p.m. ET.Dating back to before the All-Star break, the Heat have lost five of their last six games.On Wednesday, it returned home from a four-game road trip and laid an absolute clunker against the Joel Embiid-less Philadelphia 76ers 119-96, one of their worst losses of the season a game removed from picking up arguably their biggest win ... against the same Sixers.

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The Toronto Maple Leafs played the Detroit Red Wings and defeated them 4-2.This was a terrible game for the Toronto Maple Leafs, but good teams when when they have bad games.That is what makes them good.When Auston Matthews is playing like this, when he's good for a goal-per-game, and you simultaneously have Mitch Marner working towards his first Hart Trophy, you will win a lot of games just by showing up.

It should be a time for celebration, but sometimes our birthday triggers difficult feelings.Here, we explore how to cope with the annual event
For most people, birthdays are a fun and happy time to celebrate with friends and family.After all, they only happen once a year.However, birthdays can sometimes be accompanied by feelings of disinterest, depression, and sadness on, or in the days leading to, your birthday - AKA the birthday blues.

Looking around Chinatown's Li Po Lounge, the 85-year-old cave of a bar with boxes on the floor and a sofa that belongs in the apartment you rented when you were 20, is a Where's Waldo-style activity.Brazen red light bleeds like ink from the corners of the room and zodiac calendars adorn the walls.Above the bar hang a few framed certificates: one is signed by Mayor London Breed and honors the Chinatown business with the Business Strengthening Award, given on May 8, 2019, as a part of San Francisco Small Business Week.