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Climbers tackle Antarctic mountain: Team surmounts perils to conquer Vinson Massif
Charleston Daily Mail; 2/12/2003; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; 387 words
; ... other team members climbed Vinson Massif in Antarctica, traveling up ... mountains to the summit of Vinson, a 45-mile route never before ... Conrad Anker, Dave Hahn, a Vinson guide, glaciologist Dan Stone ... positioning system reading from Vinson's summit - measuring the mountain ...
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Suzuki's muscle quad. (Outdoors).(Vinson ATV)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
Popular Mechanics; 1/1/2002; Taylor, Rich; 795 words
; ... known to its friends as Vinson. Vinson is named for Antarctica's 16,066-ft. Mount Vinson Massif, which is high on the global ... remember reading about Mount Vinson in 1999, when a group led ... power-packed ATV. The heart of the Vinson is a new 493cc four-stroke ... iron cylinder liner, ...
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Scaling seven top mountains is summit else
Evening News - Scotland; 1/26/2005; ALAN RODEN; 488 words
; ... completed a 17-day trek to the summit of Vinson Massif, which is the highest mountain in ... adventure. He will also be filmed by Arab news network Al Jazeera throughout the ... climbed two of his seven summits - Vinson Massif, and Denali in Alaska, which is 20 ... exhilarating when we reached ...
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Blind man is single-minded in his quest to climb the Seven Summits.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 2/12/2001; Goldstein, Steve; 1139 words
; Last month, mountaineer Erik Weihenmayer stood atop icy Vinson Massif, the 16,864-foot apex of Antarctica, thereby reaching the fourth of the Seven Summits that crown the continents of the world. Next ... began climbing across the roof of the world with Mount McKinley, followed by Kilimanjaro in Africa, Aconcagua in ...
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Fit of Peak; MIKE SCHILLER AND HIS CRAMPONS HEAD TO ANTARCTICA
Pittsburgh City Paper; 11/24/2004; Anonymous; 599 words
; ... earth -- Antarctica's Mount Vinson -- and the only thing he's ... ice and a few tents." The Vinson massif is 16,067 feet high, "which ... definition of bad weather might be. Vinson could be minus 40 degrees ... guys; 13 people make up the Vinson expedition. More rope connects ... sounds exultant ...
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AT THE TOP OF THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD
The Boston Globe; 2/11/2003; AGNIESZKA BISKUP; 611 words
; ... incompetence." There are no mishaps on Vinson Massif, though there are some tense moments. The ... continent. Nova shows us the unexplored side of Vinson, and gives us a taste of the increasingly ... to the program at www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vinson.
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Week in the Life the United States Extreme sports team: `Let's ski down Antarctica's tallest mountain...'
The Independent - London; 12/11/1999; Andrew Gumbel; 677 words
; ... equipment, to scale the 16,000ft Vinson Massif. But they only got as far as Punta ... team reaches the summit of the Vinson Massif. Although it is cloudy as they ... the team ski and snowboard down Vinson. "We're happy and excited. Everybody ...
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The Outside Line
The Washington Post; 10/3/2004; 377 words
; ... to the experienced climber. Another is massif, which evokes imposing ice blocks and ... December 2003 scaled the 16,067-foot Vinson Massif, the highest peak in Antarctica and one ... Non-members are welcome. You may not have massifs on your climbing itinerary, but this ...
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EXTREME TRAVEL TRIVIA
The Washington Post; 2/8/2004; Kitty Thuermer; 151 words
; ... weekends Super Bowl, the Carolina Panthers decided to relax at a spot east of the highest point in Antarctica -- the Vinson Massif. Name the spot. Deadline For Contest 222 Entries Is Friday, Feb. 13, At 10 A.M. Send Entries By E-Mail (Travtrivia ...
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Lofty peaks.(CHART-READING SKILLS)
Science World; 1/14/2008; 427 words
; ... feet Mount Elbrus: 18,506 feet Vinson Massif: 16,062 feet Mount Kosciusko ... Aconcagua, Mount Kilimanjaro, Vinson Massif, and Mount Kosciusko (or Carstensz ... Elbrus Russia 5,642 Antarctica Vinson Massif Ellsworth Mts. 4,897 Australia ...
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