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| Lessons Learned / Mike Turpin
- Aug. 24, 1933 -- There was a sudden chill as the first rays of a brilliant morning sun were interrupted by a stray cloud. Norman Clyde stretched his arms and glanced up the narrow talus shelf that he would use as a base to climb Michael's Minaret.
| | Ex Chorley councillor injured in abseiling fall in Swiss Alps
- A FORMER councillor shattered his leg 200 metres up a rock face in an abseiling accident in the Swiss Alps.
| | Activists taken from arctic oil rig
- NUUK, Greenland, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Activists who scaled a drilling platform off the coast of Greenland were arrested after severe weather forced them off the rig, police said. Greenland - Nuuk - Cairn Energy - Science and Environment - Greenpeace
| | Greenpeace Activists Arrested After Abandoning Occupation of Arctic Oil Rig
- by Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent Four Greenpeace activists who halted drilling by a British-owned oil exploration rig off Greenland have been arrested after they abandoned their occupation because of severe weather. Greenlandic police arrested the four after high winds buffeted the Stena Don drilling rig overnight, forcing them to abandon mountaineering-style platforms they had ...
| | Historic Mt. Everest Expedition Enjoys Reliable Internet Access with Stratos ChatCard Data and BGAN
- - Stratos ChatCard Data enables prepaid, individual Internet access for each member of the expedition team - BETHESDA, Maryland, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ - Stratos Global, the leading global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, today announced that the Eddie Bauer First Ascent expedition team successfully deployed Inmarsat's BGAN mobile broadband satellite ...
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