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German Artist Paints Everest Climbers Who Met With Disaster
By Larry Knowles - AOL News
(Nov. 18) -- Some of Mount Everest's most star-crossed climbers have gone from rarefied air to rarefied art as a German artist has immortalized them in a series of portraits called "Top of the World." To date, Juergen Staeudtner, 43, of Dusseldorf, has painted nine climbers, most of whom have either suffered serious injury or died on the world's tallest mountain. Juergen Staeudtner "Green Boot Cave," oil on canvas, depicts a a body found near the summit of Mount Everest. For years, the male climber -- Tsewang Paljor -- was referred to only by the color of the his boots. Among his subjects ...
Rare High-Altitude Tigers Discovered
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 20) -- Tigers are known as the true "kings of the jungle" for a reason: They tend to prefer the low-altitude living of tropical and subtropical forests. But a BBC film crew has recently captured the first evidence that some tigers live at altitudes as high as approximately 13,000 feet (4,000 meters,) far above the tree line. The television crew was told by locals in the small Himalayan country of Bhutan that tigers were living in the mountains. To investigate, they left dozens of small camera traps at high altitudes for three months. When they returned to the cameras, they found ...
U.N. Climate Panel Apologizes for Faulty 2007 Statement on Melting Glaciers
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the division of the United Nations that researches global warming, apologized Wednesday for a 2007 report that claimed the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, CNN reports. The IPCC was responding a controversy swirling around a particular paragraph in the 2007 statement that had come from a long chain of popular articles -- essentially scientific hearsay. The statement read: "Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world, and if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 ...
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