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By: Jerry Beck,
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There are some incredible athletes amongst our ABBA bloggers but if scaling Everest only happens in your dreams, read on – Just a few weeks ago on 14th May, a friend of mine, Rob Hart, made the summit and raised $15 000 in sponsorship for the Room to Read Project in South Africa and for building a school in Nepal. The trip took seven weeks, starting in Kathmandu on March 30th, and ending there on May 17th.
Passionate about Room to Read Rob and his wife, Anna, first got involved with the project when they moved to Singapore in 2008. Room to Read daily transforms the lives of millions of children in developing countries by focusing on books, literacy and gender equality in education. Apart from building libraries and encouraging children to read, they support girls, who in most circumstances would’ve had to drop out of school, with special scholarships which give them the chance to complete secondary school and reach their full potential.
But back to Everest!
Rob has climbed the Seven Summits at the rate of one a year since 2003. He says: 'I’ve dreamt of climbing Everest since I can first remember, and that dream morphed to include the highest mountain on each continent. The attraction of frozen digits, howling winds and inedible food eludes many, but to me the draw is that such adventure and challenge is still available in modern times.'
This year’s success was his second attempt at Everest. In 2005 the mountain defeated him with icy winds. Even this year’s assent was not without its drama. Coming face to face with other climbers on their way down who hadn’t made the summit, he writes: ‘We meet mostly disappointed climbers coming down in the other direction, because the wind was quite strong the day before, May 12. One girl sobbing through her oxygen mask stands out, her dream in tatters for the time being. I know how that feels from last time. Some of the others did not make the top, but are just happy to be getting down alive.’
The ‘getting down alive’ part is brought grimly home when they came across a Japanese climber who’d died two days before. ‘Apparently he had got hypothemia, become disorientated and when his sherpa tried to help him, he became aggressive and pulled off his goggles, and so they had to leave him. He was still attached to the rope, looking like a wax model, and just a few meters off that path, so we cut him loose and retied the rope so that climbers could continue to use the fixed line.’
‘A quick 9 hour slog up the mountain and I am on top of the world. As you can see I was tired enough to want to sit down. With only 2 of us up there it was impossible to hold the flag out properly - Mike took 3 photo's of me with my flag with his hands out of the gloves in -20C, and this is
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There are some incredible athletes amongst our ABBA bloggers but if scaling Everest only happens in your dreams, read on – Just a few weeks ago on 14th May, a friend of mine, Rob Hart, made the summit and raised $15 000 in sponsorship for the Room to Read Project in South Africa and for building a school in Nepal. The trip took seven weeks, starting in Kathmandu on March 30th, and ending there on May 17th.Passionate about Room to Read Rob and his wife, Anna, first got involved with the project when they moved to Singapore in 2008. Room to Read daily transforms the lives of millions of children in developing countries by focusing on books, literacy and gender equality in education. Apart from building libraries and encouraging children to read, they support girls, who in most circumstances would’ve had to drop out of school, with special scholarships which give them the chance to complete secondary school and reach their full potential.
But back to Everest!
Rob has climbed the Seven Summits at the rate of one a year since 2003. He says: 'I’ve dreamt of climbing Everest since I can first remember, and that dream morphed to include the highest mountain on each continent. The attraction of frozen digits, howling winds and inedible food eludes many, but to me the draw is that such adventure and challenge is still available in modern times.'
This year’s success was his second attempt at Everest. In 2005 the mountain defeated him with icy winds. Even this year’s assent was not without its drama. Coming face to face with other climbers on their way down who hadn’t made the summit, he writes: ‘We meet mostly disappointed climbers coming down in the other direction, because the wind was quite strong the day before, May 12. One girl sobbing through her oxygen mask stands out, her dream in tatters for the time being. I know how that feels from last time. Some of the others did not make the top, but are just happy to be getting down alive.’
The ‘getting down alive’ part is brought grimly home when they came across a Japanese climber who’d died two days before. ‘Apparently he had got hypothemia, become disorientated and when his sherpa tried to help him, he became aggressive and pulled off his goggles, and so they had to leave him. He was still attached to the rope, looking like a wax model, and just a few meters off that path, so we cut him loose and retied the rope so that climbers could continue to use the fixed line.’ ‘A quick 9 hour slog up the mountain and I am on top of the world. As you can see I was tired enough to want to sit down. With only 2 of us up there it was impossible to hold the flag out properly - Mike took 3 photo's of me with my flag with his hands out of the gloves in -20C, and this is
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Posted on 8/1/2009
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1. What album was the second released by The Beatles in the U.K.?
2. What is the second largest planet in the Solar System?
3. Who was the second U.S. President to be assassinated?
4. And, as a follow-up to the previous question, who was the second assassin of a U.S. President?
5. Who was the second person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean?
6. Of the World’s continents what is the second largest in area?
7. What was the title of the second film in the James Bond series made by Eon Productions?
8. Mount Everest is the highest but what is the second highest mountain?
9. Queen Victoria has the longest reign in British history but who has the second longest?
10. Apollo 11 with Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin made the first manned Moon landing, what mission, and what astronauts made the second manned Moon landing?
ANSWERS
1. What album was the second released by The Beatles in the U.K.?
With The Beatles was the second album released by the group. Like the first (Please Please Me) it was released in 1963, amongst its 14 tracks were Lennon and McCartney’s All My Loving and I Wanna Be Your Man.
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2. What is the second largest planet in the Solar System?
Saturn. Jupiter is the largest of the planets and Saturn is approximately one-third of Jupiter’s mass whereas it is 95 times the mass of Earth. It is the sixth planet from the Sun and takes approximately 29.5 (Earth) years to orbit the Sun.
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3. Who was the second U.S. President to be assassinated?
James A. Garfield who was not only the second U.S. President to be assassinated, after Abraham Lincoln, he was also the one who had the second shortest tenure in presidential history, after William Henry Harrison.
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4. And, as a follow-up to the previous question, who was the second assassin of a U.S. President?
Charles Guiteau. John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin, being the first.
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5. Who was the second person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean?
Amelia Earhart was the second to achieve this feat, after Charles Lindbergh. Her time for her flight was 14 hours 56 minutes, which was a record at that time. She had previously become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic albeit as a passenger.
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6. Of the World’s continents what is the second largest in area?
Africa is second in size after Asia. Africa 11,668,598.7 sq mi (30,221,532 sq km) compared to Asia 17,212,000 sq mi (44,579,000 sq km).
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7. What was the title of the second film in the James Bond series made by Eon Productions?
From Russia with Love, released in 1963, followed its predecessor Dr. No. It was the also the second to star Sean Connery in the role of 007.
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8. Mount Everest is the highest but what is the second highest mountain?
K2 (other names Mount Godwin Austen, Qogir Feng, Dapsang or Chogori) at 28,251 feet (8,611 metres)is the world’s second highest mountain. Situated in the Karakoram Range K2 is located on the border of and lies partly in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang of China and partly in the Kashmir region of Pakistan.
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9. Queen Victoria has the longest reign in British history but who has the second longest?
George III is the second longest reigning monarch in British history having reigned for 59 years 96 days. Victoria reigned for 63 years 216 days. If she was still on the throne on 12th May 2011 Elizabeth II would surpass George III and become the second longest reigning British monarch.
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10. Apollo 11 with Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin made the first manned Moon landing, what mission, and what astronauts made the second manned Moon landing?
Apollo 12 with Pete Conrad & Alan Bean. Between 1969 and 1972 Apollo’s 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 landed on the Moon each carrying a two man crew meaning that 12 Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon’s surface. In July 1969 Neil Armstrong of Apollo 11 became the first man to walk on the Moon and in December 1972 Eugene Cernan of Apollo 17 was the ‘last man on the Moon’. An on-board explosion meant that Apollo 13 had to abandon a Moon landing while trying to make repairs that would allow them to return to Earth.
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1. What album was the second released by The Beatles in the U.K.?
2. What is the second largest planet in the Solar System?
3. Who was the second U.S. President to be assassinated?
4. And, as a follow-up to the previous question, who was the second assassin of a U.S. President?
5. Who was the second person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean?
6. Of the World’s continents what is the second largest in area?
7. What was the title of the second film in the James Bond series made by Eon Productions?
8. Mount Everest is the highest but what is the second highest mountain?
9. Queen Victoria has the longest reign in British history but who has the second longest?
10. Apollo 11 with Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin made the first manned Moon landing, what mission, and what astronauts made the second manned Moon landing?
ANSWERS
1. What album was the second released by The Beatles in the U.K.?
With The Beatles was the second album released by the group. Like the first (Please Please Me) it was released in 1963, amongst its 14 tracks were Lennon and McCartney’s All My Loving and I Wanna Be Your Man.
Image from Wikipedia
2. What is the second largest planet in the Solar System?
Saturn. Jupiter is the largest of the planets and Saturn is approximately one-third of Jupiter’s mass whereas it is 95 times the mass of Earth. It is the sixth planet from the Sun and takes approximately 29.5 (Earth) years to orbit the Sun.
Image from Wikipedia
3. Who was the second U.S. President to be assassinated?
James A. Garfield who was not only the second U.S. President to be assassinated, after Abraham Lincoln, he was also the one who had the second shortest tenure in presidential history, after William Henry Harrison.
Image from Wikipedia
4. And, as a follow-up to the previous question, who was the second assassin of a U.S. President?
Charles Guiteau. John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin, being the first.
Image from Wikipedia
5. Who was the second person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean?
Amelia Earhart was the second to achieve this feat, after Charles Lindbergh. Her time for her flight was 14 hours 56 minutes, which was a record at that time. She had previously become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic albeit as a passenger.
Image from Wikipedia
6. Of the World’s continents what is the second largest in area?
Africa is second in size after Asia. Africa 11,668,598.7 sq mi (30,221,532 sq km) compared to Asia 17,212,000 sq mi (44,579,000 sq km).
Image from Wikipedia
7. What was the title of the second film in the James Bond series made by Eon Productions?
From Russia with Love, released in 1963, followed its predecessor Dr. No. It was the also the second to star Sean Connery in the role of 007.
Image via Wikipedia
8. Mount Everest is the highest but what is the second highest mountain?
K2 (other names Mount Godwin Austen, Qogir Feng, Dapsang or Chogori) at 28,251 feet (8,611 metres)is the world’s second highest mountain. Situated in the Karakoram Range K2 is located on the border of and lies partly in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang of China and partly in the Kashmir region of Pakistan.
Image from Wikipedia
9. Queen Victoria has the longest reign in British history but who has the second longest?
George III is the second longest reigning monarch in British history having reigned for 59 years 96 days. Victoria reigned for 63 years 216 days. If she was still on the throne on 12th May 2011 Elizabeth II would surpass George III and become the second longest reigning British monarch.
Image from Wikipedia
10. Apollo 11 with Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin made the first manned Moon landing, what mission, and what astronauts made the second manned Moon landing?
Add a CommentApollo 12 with Pete Conrad & Alan Bean. Between 1969 and 1972 Apollo’s 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 landed on the Moon each carrying a two man crew meaning that 12 Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon’s surface. In July 1969 Neil Armstrong of Apollo 11 became the first man to walk on the Moon and in December 1972 Eugene Cernan of Apollo 17 was the ‘last man on the Moon’. An on-board explosion meant that Apollo 13 had to abandon a Moon landing while trying to make repairs that would allow them to return to Earth.
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!!!!!!! That’s my wordless comment. LOL Beautiful, Laura