Everest Season Kicks Off with New Rules, Big Crowds, and Poop Bags The number of climbing ... permits for the season—down from the record-breaking 478 last year. As of April 22, 365 permits had been granted to 34 different expedition teams. 04/23/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Mount Everest The first Peruvian woman to summit Mount Everest talks about her achievement and how she broke barriers along the way. As the dust settles from the 2021 Everest climbing season, a look at how it ... 04/22/2024 - 4:42 pm | View Link
Climbing Season on Mount Everest Is Starting Later Than Normal The 2024 spring climbing season on Mount Everest is delayed due to crumbling ice in the Khumbu Glacier. On April 17, in advance of climbing teams ... around 500 to 600 Sherpas who would have ... 04/18/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
China Opens Mount Everest: Climbers Welcome After Three-Year Hiatus According to foreign media such as CNN, the China Tibet Mountaineering Association (CTMA) announced that it will fully open the northern Tibet route of Everest this spring climbing season. 04/15/2024 - 11:06 pm | View Link
Climbing Teams Arriving at Everest Base Camp Approximately 500 permits have been issued to climb on the Nepalese side of Everest this season ... and labor from the strong Sherpas. As the climbing teams occupy their EBC camps, I will provide ... 04/15/2024 - 9:41 am | View Link
Adolf Hitler, who rose to power on the backs of anti-Semitic scumbags, crackpots and German nationalist zealots finally ended his reign of terror by killing himself.
On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.
Tim Kennedy (D) is projected to win the special election for New York’s 26th congressional district, the Washington Post reports.
“When Kennedy is sworn in as a member of the House Democratic conference, it will temporarily shave the chamber’s Republican majority to one seat, leaving a small margin for error for party-line agenda items.”
(NEW YORK) — Large numbers of New York City police officers began entering the Columbia University late Tuesday as dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters remained on the campus.
Demonstrators had occupied Hamilton Hall hours earlier after setting up an encampment earlier in the month.
Students had defiantly set up tents again after police cleared an encampment at the university on April 18 and arrested more than 100 people.
“Hundreds of police officers in riot gear marched onto the campus of Columbia University in Upper Manhattan late Tuesday, where protesters had occupied a campus building, as clashes over the war in Gaza continued to escalate at American universities,” the New York Times reports.
The second week of the Donald Trump criminal trial testimony began with a bang!
First up, a ruling on the gag order. Trump was found in criminal contempt and fined $1k for each of the 9 violations. He was also ordered to remove the offending 9 posts by 2:15pm (which he complied with) AND warned that he will be incarcerated (maybe) for future violations.
Reminder: there is a 2nd gag order violation hearing scheduled for this Thursday morning.
BREAKING:Judge Merchan threatens Trump with jail time for further violations of his gag order."Defendant is hereby warned that the Court will not tolerate continued willful violations of its lawful orders and that if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances, it will…
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 30, 2024
BREAKING: Donald Trump has just complied with the order from Judge Merchan to remove social media posts from his Truth Social page and his campaign website that the judge deemed in violation of the gag order.
The U. S. House voted Tuesday to end federal protection for gray wolves, approving a bill that would remove them from the endangered species list across the lower 48 states.
A handful of Democrats joined with Republicans in passing the bill. The measure now goes to the Senate, but it appears doomed after the White House issued a statement Monday warning that the Biden administration opposes it.