Climbing

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Outside May 2003	Everest's Destiny Hold on to your crampons. May 29 marks the 50th anniversary of the first successful summit of Mount Everest, by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Record crowds of climbers, trekkers, and gawkers are expected to cram the mountain.
Outside May 2003 Jenny Dubin	Lucky 13 Meet Apa Sherpa, who will attempt to break his own record of 12 Everest summits this month
Outside April 2003 Jenny Dubin	Tigers of the Snow Three Generations of Great Climbing Sherpas
Outside April 2003 Jason Paur	Worry Birds Last year was a low point for Search-and-Rescue helicopters. Could this year be even more dangerous?
Outside March 2003 Paul Kvinta	Big Gulp, No Exit Low's Gully is a 6,000-foot chasm that gets deadly when it rains. This month, a team of top canyoneers take it on, with only one way out.
Outside March 2003 Mark Jenkins	Beyond Belief In Bhutan's pristine alpine sanctuary, even a heathen climber can see the light.
Outside March 2003 Tim Sohn	The Pulse Researchers are using Viagra to alleviate pulmonary hypertension, a factor in high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), the lethal condition in which the lungs fill with fluid as a result of lower oxygen levels at higher elevations.
Outside January 2003 Bill Gifford	Is This Any Way to Make a Living? With $100,000 for the winners, the world's most relentless teams, and a 138,000-vertical-foot Rocky Mountain course, the Subaru Primal Quest seemed poised to give big-time adventure racing a smashing return to U.S. soil. But then the race began -- and all hell broke loose.
Outside December 2002 Rob Buchanan	Climbing at the Speed of Soul With his supreme skills on rock, hypercompetitive intensity, and new-age bag of tricks, Dean Potter scrambles up big walls faster than any man alive. So what's the trajectory of all this velocity?
Outside December 2002 Brad Wetzler	The $50,000 Pyramid Mount Everest becomes a prize on TV's Global Extremes. Is this a Good Thing?
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