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Death in the Himalayas
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The Last River The Tragic Race for Shangri-La. By Todd Balf.
Crown. $24.
Below Another Sky A Mountain Adventure in Search of a Lost
Father. By Rick Ridgeway. Henry Holt. $25.
It's both difficult and-especially to those of an adventurous bent-
inspiring to imagine that there are places on earth yet to be mapped
or visited by inhabitants of the industrialized world. The Tibetan
Himalayas harbor glacial peaks and river gorges so inaccessible that
even in the waning days of the 20t...
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Death in the Himalayas
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; The Last River The Tragic Race for Shangri-La. By Todd Balf. Crown. $24. Below Another Sky A Mountain Adventure in Search of a Lost Father. By Rick Ridgeway. Henry Holt. $25. It's both difficult and-especially to those of an adventurous bent- inspiring to imagine that there are places on earth yet
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Swept Away
The Washington Post
; THE LAST RIVER The Tragic Race for Shangri-la By Todd Balf Crown. 293 pp. $24 BELOW ANOTHER SKY A Mountain Adventure In Search of a Lost Father By Rick Ridgeway Henry Holt. 306 pp. $25 In this age of information overload, it's both difficult and -- especially to those of an adventurous bent --
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ADVENTURE READING.(LIVING)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; No doubt about it: If you liked ''Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer's account of triumph and tragedy on Mt. Everest, you'll go for ''The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-La by Todd Balf. ''The Last River'' (Crown, $24) is Balf's account of an ace kayaking team's 1998 attempt to conquer what was
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MEET CHARLIE MUNSEY
Boise Weekly
; As the lead photographer for Outside magazine's recent Yarlung Tsangpo expedition, Charlie Munsey not only created lasting images for the public, but defined himself as well. To hear talk of expedition kayaking near rivers or in boat shops throughout the country, it would be odd not to hear the
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'Last River' explores fatal kayaking trip to Himalayas.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; In a world where every geographic feature of consequence has been summited, sailed or subjected to 15 minutes of Discovery Channel fame, the Tsangpo River flashes like a unclaimed gemstone, the Everest of rivers. From its Himalayan headwaters, the river runs across the high Tibetan plain, then
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Exploring rivers deep, mountains high.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; Points Unknown: A Century of Great Exploration edited by David Roberts (Norton, $29.95) Every generation of explorers thinks it was born too late. A hundred years ago Victorian adventurers lamented that there was nothing left to accomplish. David Roberts' collection of the best adventure literature
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Historian describes deadly 'Jungle' trek
Albuquerque Journal
; ... the tattered remains of the Americans. And that leads to one of the few drawbacks of the book: It doesn't have enough detailed maps to allow the reader to really keep track of where and when the various parties were wandering. Early on, the group got split ...
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Vicious cycle ; A local black athlete's stunning skills stirred the cruelty and eventual neglect of a racist age
The Boston Globe
; Book Review Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being By Todd Balf Crown, 306 pp., illustrated, $24 Nearly a century before Michael Jordan, there was another African- American athlete whose powerful jump dominated a sport and captivated fans worldwide.
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; The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-La Todd Balf Crown Publishers 263 pages In Kathmandu, where wilderness guides and suppliers do a booming business, one whitewater outfitter frankly denies responsibility for the diminished career opportunities, and relationship problems that accompany the
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PICK OF THE NIGHT
Evening Standard - London
; When Expeditions Go Wrong 8pm,National Geographic Gripping new series about real life adventures combining interviews, archive footage and dramatic reconstructions. Tonight's edition recreates a trip down Tibet's deadly Yarlung Tsangpo river by a group of Olympic rafting champions. When one of them
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