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Developer angling to build new five-star hotel in Beverly Hills. (Up Front).(Athens Group negotiates with Lexington Commercial Holdings to buy several buildings)
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Beverly Hills has not had a ritzy hotel built in the area for 10 years, but city officials are banking on a $200 million project to bring a new five-star facility to town.
The Athens Group, a Phoenix-based developer of luxury hotels, is negotiating with Lexington Commercial Holdings to buy several buildings on Canon and Beverly Drives just north of Wilshire Boulevard and develop a 228-room hotel that would be topped with two stories of luxury condominiums encompassing 72,000 square feet. It would be located one block from Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant.
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 "Birmingham Evening Mail (England)")
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Jersey by air.
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
; ...Filly, Female five and over-Mare, Male one to four-Colt, Male five and over-Stallion, Under one-Foal. 1. Mount Kebnekaise is the highest point in which European country? 2. Which leisure company announced in 1993 it had lost 900 million dollars...
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STATE DEPARTMENT ISSUES BACKGROUND NOTE ON SWEDEN
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...the border with Norway, where peaks rise to over 1,500 m; the highest point is at the northern tip of this range, at Kebnekaise, which reaches 2,111 m (6,926 ft.). South of the mountains is the lakeland area, where the Vnern, the largest lake...
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Travel Etc: GUESS WHAT I DID ON MY HOLIDAYS? Eating cowboy breakfasts in Arizona, jungle trekking in Sri Lanka, husky sledding in Lapland. Helen Truszkowski offers a comprehensive guide to the best family breaks around the world
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...snowmobile safari is a perfect opportunity to explore the "Sahara" of Lapland. Destinations include the fells of Halti and Kebnekaise, and you can even take a Polar Sea safari to Norway. Walks Worldwide (01524 262255, www.walkworldwide.com). Recommended...
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Sweden
Map from: MapQuest.com
; ...Finland Gaddede Gallivare Gavle Goteborg Halmstad Helsingborg Hoting ICELAND IRELAND Jokkmokk Jonkoping Karesuando Karlskrona Kebnekaise 6,926 ft. (2,111 m) Kiruna LATVIA LITHUANIA Lapland Linkoping Malmo Mora NORRLAND NORWAY Norrkoping North Sea Norwegian...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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SOS copter in killer crash.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; ...after it crashed and burst into flames while trying to rescue two research workers aged 80 and 50. Another team managed to reach the climbers by foot and was also trying to reach the site of the wreck on the 6,966ft Kebnekaise mountain.
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Jersey by air
Newspaper article from: Evening Mail
; ...Filly, Female five and over-Mare, Male one to four-Colt, Male five and over-Stallion, Under one-Foal. 1. Mount Kebnekaise is the highest point in which European country? 2. Which leisure company announced in 1993 it had lost 900 million dollars...
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Trekking through Europe's Arctic
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...sun-bleached plain. Here it bends south and winds around the floor of an up-and-down corridor. Off to the left is Kebnekaise, a glacier-laden peak that, at 2,310 meters, or about 6,925 feet, is Sweden's highest summit. Skiing through...
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Mother nature meets the sisterhood of steeps.
Magazine article from: Skiing
; ...Stevenson LOCATION: Donner Summit, California SKIER: Karolina Kepsdotter PHOTOGRAPHER: Christoffer Sjostrom LOCATION: Kebnekaise, Sweden SKIER: Andrea Binning PHOTOGRAPHER: Christoffer Sjostrom LOCATION: Wauaka, New Zealand SKIER: Sarah Burke PHOTOGRAPHER...
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Winter: Is this the Lapp of luxury? A Winter's Tale; Modern Samis herd their deer using skidoos, and double-glaze their homes, but Rhiannon Batten has sampled more traditional aspects of this northern life
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...cable car and swoop up to the top of Mount Nuolja to sip a mug of hot chocolate in a cosy cafe overlooking the granite bulk of Kebnekaise mountain covered in snow. The cable car runs from the end of February to the start of May and costs pounds 6 return per person...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Rescue bid ends in crash.(Foreign News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...rescue team managed to reach the climbers by foot and was also trying to reach the site of the wreck on the south-west side of the 6,966ft high Kebnekaise mountain. The helicopter crashed at about 6,000ft and burst into flames.
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