Virtual reality technology has allowed people to relive weddings, scale Mount Everest and visit Olympic venues from their living rooms.
Two mountaineers, an American and a Canadian, died within three days of each other in attempts to scale Mount Everest, the Nepalese Tourism Ministry said.
He is not a contact hitter, not someone like Tony Gwynn, who won eight batting titles and attempted to scale Mount Four Hundred by spraying singles and doubles through every nook and cranny.
In this past campaign, Al Gore and George W. Bush delivered the speeches on diplomacy that are still required in order to scale Mount Gravitas, and in their second debate they engaged in a blurry, amiable 45-minute discussion of foreign affairs.
Jonathan Pryce is the latest actor to scale Mount Lear and, although it's getting a bit crowded on the summit these days, he gives a striking, individualistic performance in a carefully considered production directed by Michael Attenborough.
Another is Ang Tharkay, who went on the Annapurna expedition with the French and is now helping a group of young Californians scale Mount Makalu, a 27,790-foot peak not far from Everest.
An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has begun his attempt to scale Mount Everest, in an effort to reclaim his title as the oldest man to reach the summit.
It is not only in the towns and villages that have been affected; helicopter teams had to evacuate dozens of critically injured climbers as they tried to scale Mount Everest over the weekend.
Sir Edmund Hillary, who had become the first person to scale Mount Everest seven years before, would have been on the doomed jet with them had he not been late.
IF the 25-below-zero temperature, howling wind and grim effects of altitude sickness do not make most of those trying to scale Mount Everest feel a world away from home, the near-complete lack of communications on and around Everest surely does.
On Nepal's "International Everest Day," here's a fascinating "Your Dot" contribution on the impacts from the crush of adventurers trying to scale Mount Everest, sent by Kashish Das Shrestha, a talented photographer and writer who is also a policy fellow at Nepal's Niti Foundation.
