Deadly El Cap still draws climbers
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Imagine standing under the spray of a garden hose with your arms over your head and cold water running down your armpits. And you are hanging a couple thousand feet in the air and, while you
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Rangers rappelled down Yosemite&#39;s most forbidding peak and then carefully climbed back up the sheer 3,200-foot face of the snowy mountain, rescuing two climbers and carrying the bodies of two others on their backs.
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Search-and-rescue coordinators assembled Sunday in near white-out conditions on Mount Hood in Oregon in an attempt to find eight climbers -- three of whom had fallen from a ledge, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said in a written statement.
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Forty-one years ago, rescuers couldn&#039;t get the body of James Mitchell out of the cave where he died while hanging 60 feet in the air, with icy water rushing over him. After he was lowered, workers dynamited the cave, sealed it with rocks and placed a memorial headstone above it.
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People still die on Everest, despite improved technology and environmental knowledge, a doctor warns.
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By Jane Wooldridge, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile -- A solitary grave sits near the top of the 10,000-foot pass, a simple monument with a yawning view of the bleached and scarred valley so loved by British geologist Sydney Hollingworth that he asked to buried here.
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The world's highest peak should put on a UN danger list to force action on global warming, campaigners say.
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DESPITE all the warnings, we reached what we thought was the Puerto de las Yeguas, highest point in the Tormantos mountains of western Spain, by midafternoon.
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MEXICO CITY -- President Felipe Calder&#xF3;n pledged "a hard and difficult battle" against gangs yesterday, a day after gunmen wounded the top security official in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco and killed his driver.
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THE worldâs highest peak should be put on a danger list because of the threat posed to it by climate change, campaigners urged today.
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There is only a "slim" chance that two Colorado climbers missing since November are still alive in a region of 20,000-foot peaks in China's southwest, an official said Tuesday.
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SAN JUAN IXTAYOPAN, Mexico -- A pair of wooden crosses outside the elementary school are all that mark the macabre site where, just weeks ago, an angry mob captured two federal police officers, beat them unconscious, and set them on fire.
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The bigger they are, the harder they can fall.
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The Che are gasping for air in the turbulent waters of La Liga. Now they must fight to ensure their next breath is not their last in the quest to retain the Championship when they travel to new boys Getafe.
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CULEBRA CREEK, Colo  - As the snow melts from the towering peaks in the distance, Culebra Creek runs fast and the trout are biting. But Van Beecham, a fourth generation fishing guide, is uneasy.
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By Derek Fernandez  VERY little has been learnt from the Highland Towers tragedy on Nov 12, 1993. Since then, there have been at least 12 major landslides, killing people and destroying property.
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Rescuers will return today to Mount Hood to continue searching for two missing climbers and to bring down the body of a third climber found dead. "We continue to proceed with this as a rescue for the two remaining climbers," Oregon National Guard Capt. Mike Braibish told reporters.