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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.

First US Everest team reunites
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First US Everest team reunites

  • LISA LEFF, Associated Press
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BERKELEY, Calif. — It might be hard to conceive now, in an era of extreme sports and ultra-light equipment, but there was a time when Americans who set out to conquer mountains engaged in a pursuit that was as lonely as it was dangerous.

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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.

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Climbing On

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Mt. Everest climber Woolums ‘at mercy of weather gods’

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HR climber returns to Everest

  • Hood River News

Mountain guide Scott Woolums has a few things to do between now and March 25, when he leaves for Nepal to guide a group of three clients on a climb of Mt. Everest -- and make his own second attempt at summiting the world's highest mountain.