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10/07/2024

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11/06/2024

Macau, by Paul Tsui

09/06/2024

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Today marks the 100 years anniversary of Everest’s biggest mystery: on June 08, 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine attempted to reach the summit on the North side of Mt. Everest. It was during the third attempt of the British expedition.

They were last seen below the second step at around 8600m. In the next days there was no sight of the two members. The bodies were never found, only later in 1999 Mallory’s co**se was discovered. Missing were his camera and the picture of his wife, which he intended to put on the summit.

There was never proof of a successful climb to the top, but there is still speculation of the possible successful outcome, which would mark the first ascent almost 30 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

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01/06/2024

29/05/2024

... and, part 2. :-D

We use the constitution of Nepal to re-create its distinctive, double-triangular flag. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓Nepal has never won a ...

29/05/2024

Part 1 :-D

27/04/2024

What an inspiration! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/NikbZjXQAFe6PsbB/

THE UNSTOPPABLE EMMA! A great example - no hiking boots - no backpack - no GPS - no sleeping bag - no hiking equipment at all - just GUTS and DETERMINATION!

When 67-year-old Emma Rowena Gatewood told her children she was going out for a walk, they didn't think much of it.

In 1950, Emma read a story in the National Geographic that would play on her mind for the next five years.

It described the famous Appalachian Trail, a 2,168-mile trail stretching from Mount Oglethorpe in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine.

The article said that no woman had ever completed the entire hike.
In 1955, she decided the time was right to embark on her impromptu stroll.

Wearing Keds tennis shoes and packing a blanket, raincoat and plastic shower curtain, she told her by-then adult children she was going out for a walk and set off.

Emma would later explain that the trail was nothing like the description offered in National Geographic which had given the impression of leisurely walks, with clean cabins waiting at the end of each stretch.

I thought it would be a nice lark. It wasn't. There were terrible blow downs, burnt-over areas that were never re-marked, gravel and sand washouts, weeds and brush to your neck, and most of the shelters were blown down, burned down or so filthy I chose to sleep out of doors.

This is no trail. This is a nightmare. For some fool reason they always lead you right up over the biggest rock to the top of the biggest mountain they can find. I've seen every fire station between here and Georgia.

Why, an Indian would die laughing his head off if he saw those trails. I would never have started this trip if I had known how tough it was, but I couldn't and I wouldn't quit.

The walk ignited something unstoppable in Emma Gatewood.
By the age of 75, she had completed the hike a further three times, breaking records as she went. She had also walked the 2,000 mile Oregon Trail from Missouri to Oregon, averaging 22 miles a day." ~ On This Day
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