Not really funny at all. From the Guardian (UK). Waste from the 700 climbers and guides a year who attempt to scale the mountain is becoming a health hazard Climbers spend weeks acclimatising around the four camps set up between the base camp at 5,300m (17,380ft) and the 8,850m-high (29,035ft) summit. The camps have tents … Read more
last week in The Daily Beast. I read it, all 62 paragraphs (took maybe ten minutes). He's now a seminarian in the Episcopal Church. Here's the whole thing for anyone interested. Confessions of a Gay Jesuit: How I Was Forced To Leave My Church—And Calling
Wow. What an amazing save by the instructor. The video has been seen 4 million times since posted yesterday. Here’s the full video at this link – it’s two minutes long. http://youtu.be/55QUQHm2B5A Or just watch this report, which has it all, plus the landing.
A nice under ten minute talk. I read quite a few of Merton’s books in my 20’s – like this one, No Man is an Island , and this one, Zen and the Birds of Appetite – although not his autobiographical Seven Story Mountain. I probably should re-read a couple, just to see how well the books … Read more