El Dalai Lama defiende su cultura en el primer acto europeo "pro Tíbet"

Source: Fox News Latino

Viena – Miles de personas se congregaron hoy en la Plaza de los Héroes de Viena, en la primera manifestación europea a favor de los derechos de los tibetanos, donde el Dalai Lama defendió la necesidad de preservar la cultura y el medioambiente del Tíbet ...
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Steve Goodwin: It was already busy when I went up Everest. Now it's like rush hour

Source: The Independent

As we ascended the steep ridge to the South Summit the queuing was more reminiscent of a supermarket check-out than a supposedly wild mountainside." The quote is from my report in The Independent of 23 May 1998. Fourteen years on, today' ...
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Everest Climb Successful, Despite Crowds, Unrelenting Winds

Source: National Geographic Museum

"Well, we did it." Speaking from the slopes of Everest, a tired Mark Jenkins reported success Friday after climbing the world's tallest peak with a National Geographic-North Face expedition. "All five of us ... summited Mount Ever ...
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Eco Everest tragedy: Attempt to raise climate change awareness ends in deaths

Source: Tom Nelson

Leanne Shuttleworth said passing the casualties was 'the most horrendous' part of the ascentShe said the frozen bodies of climbers who died last weekend were still attached to fixed mountaineering linesTeenager said ...
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Visit Nepal at the Lorne Park library

Source: The Mississauga News

Adventurer, photographer, lecturer, writer and Himalayan guide Chris Beall has made speaking in Mississauga about his adventures an annual event. This year, he'll be at Lorne Park Library on June 28 show ...
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Beside The Himalayan Treks

Source: Travellers Point

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An Pfingsten lockt Brandenburg mit diversen Angeboten

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Am Samstag wird ab 15 Uhr in einem Festzelt an der Ringpromenade in Falkensee (Havelland) ein Mega-Klassentreffen stattfinden. Erwartet werden 4500 Teilnehmer aus allen Falkenseer Schuljahrgδngen. Es ist der dritte Ve ...
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Mountaineer rescued from Qomolangma

Source: SINA English

While hiking Qomolangma, the world's tallest mountain, mountaineer Wang Tianhan wrote on his micro blog that he was "kidnapped" on Tuesday by a group of people who turned out to be rescuers. Wang, a Beijing-based mountaineer, was hiking to an al ...
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Louisville theme park won't offer roller coasters, may delay reopening to 2014

Source: Louisville Courier-Journal

There will be no major roller coasters running at Bluegrass Boardwalk when the theme park opens at the Kentucky state fairgrounds, according to a preliminary state application that emphasizes restored and expanded water features. And the Bluegrass Board ...
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