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From Mount Hood to Mount Everest

  • Caleb Lundquist
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Two Hood River residents are taking on one of the world’s most treacherous and challenging, yet fulfilling expeditions: Climbing Mount Everest…

Avalanche sweeps down Everest, killing at least 12
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Avalanche sweeps down Everest, killing at least 12

  • BINAJ GURUBACHARYA, Associated Press
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KATMANDU, Nepal— An avalanche swept down a climbing route on Mount Everest early Friday, killing at least 12 Nepalese guides and leaving four missing in the deadliest disaster on the world’s highest peak. Several more were injured.

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Everest adventure gives HR kids a new perspective

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Going to bed with hot water bottles in their sleeping bags to keep warm may not have been their idea of a fun spring break, but Josh and Erin Blanchette took it in stride as just one of those things that happens in the Himalayas.