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1 Missing Climber’s Body Found in China
1 Missing Climber’s Body Found in China | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited
A follow up on the top female climber reported missing in an earlier post.
The body was found at the 17,390-foot level on Genie Mountain, also known as Genyen Peak, not far from the Sichuan border with Tibet. The mountain is 20,354 feet high.
Unlike the case of the missing climbers on Mount Hood in Oregon, the search had been complicated because the two did not leave detailed plans and rescuers initially did not even know which province in southwestern China to search.
But a clue to their whereabouts emerged several days ago, when rescue workers found a driver who had dropped the pair off near the mountain on Nov. 11.
Boskoff and Fowler told him they would climb the mountain and that he could meet them on Nov. 24 so they could pick up their bags, but they did not show up.
Boskoff ascended six of the world’s peaks over 26,000 feet, including Mount Everest. She owned Mountain Madness, a Seattle adventure travel company.
Chess Player Banned 10 Years For Cheating With Bluetooth, Computer
Chess Player Banned 10 Years For Cheating With Bluetooth, Computer – News by InformationWeek
An Indian chess player was banned Tuesday from competition for 10 years after he was caught using a Bluetooth headset sewn into a cap earlier this month to get help from a computer.
The All India Chess Federation slapped the 10-year sanction on Umakant Sharma, who had been using a Bluetooth device stitched into a cap he typically pulled down over his ears. According to the federation, Sharma’s accomplices relayed moves made by a computer chess program to him via the Bluetooth headset. Bharat Singh Chauhan, the AICF treasurer, showed the cap and Bluetooth device at a meeting convened Tuesday that decided Sharma’s punishment.
Sharma was found out during a random check at a New Delhi tournament Dec. 4; he had been seeded second in the tournament.
Top Woman Climber Missing
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Christine Boskoff is not just any climber; she’s considered the top woman climber in the world.
She recently traveled to China to climb unscaled mountains. She was supposed to fly back to America two weeks ago, but no one has heard from her. Two teams of 25 searchers are combing an uncharted mountain in China.
Boskoff’s family in Appleton is very worried, especially her mother.
“She always calls me every time she comes, does any trip or mountain,” said Joyce Feld, mother. “She always calls me always and tells me that she’s safe, but she didn’t call… so…”
Christine Boskoff has climbed six of the world’s highest peaks, including Mount Everest. She and her climbing partner, Charlie Fowler, are experienced, but her family knows anything can happen during a climb.
“I have such faith in her because she knows what she’s doing,” Feld said. “She’s an excellent climber, and she didn’t call me this time.” Thanks to Maria Collier for this one.
Fight Club …on 60 Minutes
Fight Club …on 60 Minutes; Exclusive Video Only on Yahoo! News
It’s been likened to a street corner brawl: two men fighting, very few rules, and the last one standing is the winner. It may be brutal but “Mixed Martial Arts” is also one of the fastest growing sports in America. Scott Pelley talks with the man behind the “Ultimate Fighting Championship” and goes toe-to-toe with some of the top fighters in the sport today.
Now its pay-per-view buys are approaching one million and Spike TV’s Ultimate Fighting Championship, the nation’s most popular pro league, outdraws baseball and basketball among the 18 to 34 crowd, which is the most highly desireable advertiser’s demographic. In fact, many have speculated that cage fighting, with its hyper-quick action and colorful characters, will replace boxing as the nation’s choice bloodsport.
The UFC was to be based upon a version of Brazilian vale tudo fighting. Often violent and brutal with minimal rules, the UFC’s brand of vale tudo, initially known as no holds barred fighting, allowed fighters of various disciplines to prove which martial arts style prevailed above others in realistic, unregulated situations. Early UFC fights, while accomplishing the goal of determining which style was best, were less sport than spectacle, which led to accusations of brutality and “human cockfighting” by opponents. Here is some video from that period, which was eventually banned on Pay-for-View, until it was re-vamped with 31 rules.
Diver’s last catch a fatal one
MiamiHerald.com | 09/15/2006 | Diver’s last catch a fatal one
Gary Cagle, an avid free diver, made two mistakes on a Key West fishing trip last Saturday:
He speared a goliath grouper, a fish that is illegal to kill in the Florida Keys. He also forgot to bring along his knife.
That error cost him his life.
Cagle, spearfishing a half-mile off Smathers Beach, shot a 40-inch goliath grouper. The fish bolted under a coral head, entangling the diver in the line and, acting like an anchor, held him underwater until he drowned. Thanks to Darryl Edwards for thie fish story.
Basketball Catfish
From Panama to the Great Lakes, Bill Driver’s done pretty well fishing over the past 50 years.
Now he’s wondering if he’d have done even better with a different kind of bait. “I never considered using a kid’s basketball,” Driver said. “Maybe I should have.”
Friday afternoon, Driver was standing on the deck of his house near 119th Street West and Central when he saw an eight-inch ball floating in Sandalwood Lake. Noticing the ball wasn’t floating normally, Driver wandered to his dock for a closer look. A catfish had its mouth stuck around the ball.
Driver hollered for his wife, Pam, to get a camera while he unrigged the sail from his nine-foot boat, wading into the lake and corralling the fish toward shore with the sail as a seine.Several times, the flathead tried to dive, only to have the ball buoy it back to the surface.
The fish appeared to be exhausted and offered little resistance once in the shallows.Things may have gone easier had the fish the strength to struggle.”I just couldn’t pull that ball out of its mouth,” Driver said. “I was lifting up out of the water as best I could by the ball. I finally sent my wife to the house to get a knife.”
Driver carefully deflated the ball. Estimated at 50 pounds, the fish swam toward the deepest part of the lake. Driver has no plans of targeting the fish in the near future.Instead, he’ll probably continue to fish for the bass and panfish that swim within the one-acre lake.
“I guess I might try fishing with a golf ball,” Driver said. “Smaller fish, smaller bait.” Thanks to Mike Douso
Amputee Vets Prove They Can Surf
Guardian Unlimited Amputee Vets Prove They Can Surf
PISMO BEACH, Calif. (AP) – As a child of 1970s California, Derek McGinnis felt that riding waves was like a birthright, and losing his left leg to a suicide bomber in Iraq wasn’t going to stop him from surfing again.
So, he rallied nearly a dozen other wounded-in-action amputees he met in a military hospital and brought them to one of California’s last old-fashioned beach towns.
The Fortunate 50
SI.com – The Fortunate 50
Why is this man smiling? When it comes to the money game, no one even comes close to Tiger Woods, who has a jaw-dropping $97.6 million in earnings.
But the average wealth of the 50 actually fell by $500,000 since last year’s list. The reason? Endorsers are taking fewer chances on athletes and increasingly turning to Hollywood celebrities (No. 2 Phil Mickelson and No. 4 Kobe Bryant are the only others on this list to have a noticeable increase in corporate income). For a list of the top 20-earning foreign athletes, click here.
Killer Whale Crushes Kayaker
This video has made the rounds, but it’s still worth noting that it was actaully a Korean-language version of a commercial for Powerade energy drink (a product of the Coca-Cola Company).
It is debunked as-real at the Myth Buster Gold Standard site of Snopes.com here