Luscious Links: Women on Everest, Growing Belief in Climate Change, and a Climate Defeatist

April 19th, 2012 • BY

High Times: Our favorite links from the web this week include a piece on NDTV about a 73-year-old Japanese woman making her second attempt to scale Everest from the Tibet side. ‘Tis the season on the vicious peak and this year is a particularly popular one as it marks the 50th anniversary of the first American ascent. Outside magazine Senior Editor Grayson Schaffer, who is on the ground at Base Camp, is delivering the play by play in grand fashion via the magazine’s website. One of the most-covered expeditions is the National Geographic-North Face team, which includes two incredible women (Hilaree O’Neill and Emily Harrington) and a group of researchers from the Mayo Clinic, who are analyzing the effects of altitude on the climbers.

Climate Chat: This year’s record-breaking warm winter has made climate change believers out of more Americans than ever before (some studies show a whopping 62%); an article in this week’s The New York Times sums up the statistics nicely. This week, Grist reported on climate defeatist (and former green activist) Paul Kingsnorth, who swings completely off the climate change grid with his literary Dark Mountain Project.

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After a 10-year career as an award-winning New York City-based editor launching and redesigning urban, style-driven magazines, Erinn Morgan left her downtown Manhattan digs after September 11th, 2001, in search of a less encumbered, freelance lifestyle. A life-changing, two-year-long trek around the country in a motorhome eventually landed her in Durango, Colo., which she now calls home. Her writing has appeared in numerous— More about this author →