Will There Be Drama on Mount Everest This Year? You Bet. Every spring, hundreds of hopefuls make the trek to the world’s tallest summit and the surrounding high peaks. This is your base camp for all the news from the Himalayas. 05/7/2024 - 9:34 am | View Link
Mount Everest: The World’s Highest Graveyard Climbing Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain (as measured from sea level ), is one of the greatest physical accomplishments humans can achieve. The bitter temperatures, unpredictable weather, 05/7/2024 - 9:21 am | View Link
Mount Everest Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow height) of 8,848.86 m (29,031 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) was most recently established in 2020 by the Chinese and Nepali authorities. 05/4/2024 - 6:29 am | View Link
Mount Everest | Height, Location, Map, Facts, Climbers, & Deaths Mount Everest, mountain on the crest of the Great Himalayas of southern Asia that lies on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Reaching an elevation of 29,032 feet (8,849 meters), Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. It has long been revered by local peoples. 05/4/2024 - 4:13 am | View Link
How to climb Mount Everest responsibly Rising to 29,032ft on the border between Nepal and Tibet, Mount Everest — known as Sagarmatha by the Sherpa people of Nepal — has held an almost mystical allure for climbers and hikers since ... 05/4/2024 - 3:59 am | View Link
See the summit of Mount Everest in 360 degrees United States (Change) Follow a National Geographic Everest expedition from the eye of a drone. 05/4/2024 - 1:57 am | View Link
Mount Everest Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, is located in the Mahalangur Himal subrange of the Himalayas. It lies on the boundary between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and Nepal . Rising to an elevation of 8,848.86m, Mount Everest is the most prominent peak among the Seven Summits of the World. 05/4/2024 - 12:03 am | View Link
Morning Joe stopped talking about Stormy Daniels long enough to mention that Trump's classified documents trial has been postponed indefinitely. Imagine that!
"The trial had been scheduled to start later this month but U. S. District Judge Cannon announced the delay and new order yesterday. The judge argues it would be imprudent to finalize a trial date when various pretrial issues and deadlines have yet to be resolved," Mika Brzezinski said.
"Special counsel Jack Smith and his team have argued Trump's lawyers have had ample time to prepare for a trial and Joe, this is one of those situations where a lot of legal experts have been saying that this is the most clear-cut case.
House Speaker Mike Johnson's Christian Nationalist views are alarming, and Americans need to understand more about the Republican leader who is second in the line of succession after Vice President Harris. Speaker Johnson's beliefs are far outside the mainstream, and he believes that a "depraved" America deserves God's wrath. The Louisiana congressman's beliefs are radical, even by today's MAGA party standards.
Ukraine’s security services said yesterday they foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and other top military and political figures. They said two Ukrainian colonels have been arrested on suspicion of treason. Via The New York Times:
The Ukrainian domestic intelligence agency, the S. B. U., said in a statement that the plot had involved a network of agents — including the two colonels — that was run by Russia’s Federal Security Service, or F.
Above, The Police perform, King of Pain. It's not a secret that the Republicans are at heart monarchists, you know, as long as they are the monarchs. Let's explore why that cannot happen!
Mike The Mad Biologist says Democrats are no longer the party of low propensity voters.
Left Jabs notes that the GOP's weaknesses are greater than its strengths.
Can It Happen Here asserts there's no king here.
Amanda Katz has the BlueSky post of the day.
Bonus Track: The Psy of Life celebrates Autism Appreciation Month.
Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem tried to say the buck stops with her after Newsmax's Eric Bolling suggested that perhaps her editor was "a liberal plant." Incredibly for real people, but not for Republicans, Bolling threw out that conspiracy over the scandal that Noem created by adding in her book that she shot and killed her 14-month-old puppy in a gravel pit.
It seems we've reached the Robespierre phase of the Republican Revolution, where one week you're a patriot, the next your head's on the chopping block. Say hi to the guillotine, Marge (just don't try to spell it).
Republicans have nothing to run on, as even they've said. Their fearful leader is stuck in a courtroom raging, sleeping and farting.