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| willi prittie: Everest, Inc. Will Cockrell, 2025-04-22 Featuring original interviews with Everest mountain guides and climbers, this is “a fast-moving, nuanced account of the peak’s transformation from the ultimate mountaineering challenge into a booming business opportunity” (Joshua Hammer, New York Times bestselling author). Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they have a sense of what the world’s highest mountain is like. It’s an extreme landscape where bad weather and incredible altitude can kill; an overcrowded, trashed-out recreation destination; and a place where the rich exploit local Sherpas while padding their egos—and social media feeds. There’s some truth to these clichés, but they’re a sliver of the story. Unlike any book to date, Everest, Inc. is the definitive account of how a few daring entrepreneurs paired raw courage and naked ambition to get paying clients safely up and down Everest. Until the late eighties, such a thing was considered impossible. Within a few years, Everest guiding was a burgeoning industry. Today, ninety percent of the people on the mountain are clients or employees of guided expeditions. Studded with quotes from original interviews with more than a hundred Western and Sherpa climbers, clients, writers, and filmmakers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—Everest, Inc. foregrounds the colorful voices of the people who have made the mountain what it is today. As professional climber and author Freddie Wilkinson says, “Whether you are thinking about taking a crack at the world’s highest peak or are simply an armchair mountaineer trying to make sense of the complex dynamics driving the modern Everest industry, Everest, Inc. should be required reading.” |
| willi prittie: High Crimes Michael Kodas, 2008-02-05 High Crimes is journalist Michael Kodas's gripping account of life on top of the world--where man is every bit as deadly as Mother Nature. In the years following the publication of Into Thin Air, much has changed on Mount Everest. Among all the books documenting the glorious adventures in mountains around the world, none details how the recent infusion of wealthy climbers is drawing crime to the highest place on the planet. The change is caused both by a tremendous boom in traffic, and a new class of parasitic and predatory adventurer. It's likely that Jon Krakauer would not recognize the camps that he visited on Mount Everest almost a decade ago. This book takes readers on a harrowing tour of the criminal underworld on the slopes of the world's most majestic mountain. High Crimes describes two major expeditions: the tragic story of Nils Antezana, a climber who died on Everest after he was abandoned by his guide; as well as the author's own story of his participation in the Connecticut Everest Expedition, guided by George Dijmarescu and his wife and climbing partner, Lhakpa Sherpa. Dijmarescu, who at first seemed well-intentioned and charming, turned increasingly hostile to his own wife, as well as to the author and the other women on the team. By the end of the expedition, the three women could not travel unaccompanied in base camp due to the threat of violence. Those that tried to stand against the violence and theft found that the worst of the intimidation had followed them home to Connecticut. Beatings, thefts, drugs, prostitution, coercion, threats, and abandonment on the highest slopes of Everest and other mountains have become the rule rather than the exception. Kodas describes many such experiences, and explores the larger issues these stories raise with thriller-like intensity. |
| willi prittie: Glacier Mountaineering Andy Tyson, 2009-06-02 Glacier Mountaineering provides the knowledge and skills needed to safely and self-sufficiently navigate over glacier terrain. Hundreds of hilarious and helpful illustrations by Mike Clelland complement the clear and concise text by Andy Tyson. Providing critical instruction for anyone planning to travel over glacier country—from the Cascades to the Rockies to Denali—this book will guide and entertain readers through glacier anatomy, equipment, route finding, and rescue techniques. |
| willi prittie: Final Environmental Impact Statement United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region, 1990 |
| willi prittie: Whiteout Jessica Goodfellow, 2017-07-15 When she was a toddler, Jessica Goodfellow’s twenty-two-year-old uncle, along with six other climbers from the 1967 Wilcox Expedition to Denali, was lost in an unprecedented ten-day storm blasting winds of up to three-hundred miles per hour. Just as North America’s highest peak is so massive that it has its own distinct weather system—changeable and perilous, subject to sudden whiteout conditions—a family whose loved one is irretrievably lost has a grief so blinding and vast that it also creates its own capricious internal weather, one that lasts for generations. Whiteout is Goodfellow’s account of growing up in this unnavigable and often unspoken-of climate of bereavement. Although her poems begin with a missing body, they are not an elegy. Instead, Goodfellow struggles with the absence of cultural ritual for the uncontainable loss of a beloved one whose body is never recovered and whose final story is unknowable. There is no solace here, no possible reconciliation. Instead, Whiteout is a defiant gaze into a storm that engulfs both the wildness of Alaska and of familial mourning. |
| willi prittie: Discovering Denali Dow Scoggins, 2004-01-04 Preparing for a trip where the forecast is chance of sunshine, partly cloudy, rain, and possibly an earthquake is a daunting task. Discovering Denali is an all-inclusive tour guide to Denali National Park and Mount McKinley. Find the secrets of Denali's treasures: The Denali Grand Slam-Dall sheep, caribou, moose and grizzly bears Arctic High Altitude Mountaineering Local festivals and events such as the Nenana Ice Classic and the Talkeetna Moose Dropping Festival The annual lottery to be allowed to drive the length of the park Discovering Denali is a compendium of all things Denali, including hiking and climbing maps, summer and winter activities, wildlife, local towns, and state parks. |
| willi prittie: Final Environmental Impact Statement: Without special title United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region, 1990 |
| willi prittie: Striving Sandy Sinclair, 2001-06 |
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| willi prittie: Climbing , 2005 |
| willi prittie: Europe Since 1945 Bernard A. Cook, 2014-01-27 Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work of some 1,700 entries in two volumes. Its scope includes all of Europe and the successor states to the former Soviet Union. The volumes provide a broad coverage of topics, with an emphasis on politics, governments, organizations, people, and events crucial to an understanding of postwar Europe. Also includes 100 maps and photos. |
| willi prittie: Everest , 2003 An illustrated history of 50 years of mountaineering on Mount Everest, with photographs from the collection of the Royal Geographic Society. |
| willi prittie: An Assesment for Ireland for three months; at Ten thousand Pounds by the month. Commencing the 12th. day of January 1654. and determining the 12th. of April following Ireland Ireland -1922, 1654 |
| willi prittie: Willy Brandt Viola Herms Drath, 2005-11-15 Originally published in 1975, this book chronicles the exciting and tragic rise and fall of Germany's first Social Democratic Chancellor, Willy Brandt. Viola Herms Drath recently participated in a symposium on Willy Brandt and the First Grand Coalition (1966-1969) please visit the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies for information. |
| willi prittie: Bibliographie zum Nationalsozialismus Michael Ruck, 1995 20,298 items - selected books, articles, dissertations, bibliographies, reference works, collections of sources, articles in collections, and newspaper articles, mainly in German (with some in English and French), published between 1945-94. Items 5405-7134 deal with the persecution and extermination of the Jews in Germany and German-occupied Europe; 7250-7729 with concentration camps; 12940-12975 with economic discrimination against Jews; 14255-14276 with Jewish students and schools; 18628-18862 with war crimes trials; 19611-19674 with Holocaust memorials; 19688-19795 with postwar reactions to and controversies about the Holocaust; and 19796-20356 with the extreme right in postwar Germany. Contains an author index and subject indexes of persons and places. |
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| willi prittie: Resisting Hitler Shareen Blair Brysac, 2002-05-23 This gripping and heartbreaking narrative is the first full account of an American woman who gave her life in the struggle against the Nazi regime. As members of a key resistance group, Mildred Harnack and her husband, Arvid, assisted in the escape of German Jews and political dissidents, and for years provided vital economic and military intelligence to both Washington and Moscow. But in 1942, following a Soviet blunder, the Gestapo arrested, tortured, and tried some four score members of the Harnacks' group, which the Nazis dubbed the Red Orchestra. Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined in Berlin on February 16, 1943, on the personal instruction of Adolf Hitler--she was the only American woman to be executed as an underground conspirator during World War II. Yet as the war ended and the Cold War began, her courage, idealism, and self-sacrifice went largely unacknowledged in America and the democratic West, and were distorted and sanitized in the Communist East. Only now, with the opening of long-sealed archives from Germany, the KGB, the CIA, and the FBI, can the full story be told. In this superbly told life of an unjustly forgotten woman, Shareen Blair Brysac depicts the human side of a controversial resistance group that for too long has been portrayed as merely a Soviet espionage network. |
| willi prittie: To Shake the Sleeping Self Jedidiah Jenkins, 2018-10-02 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycles across two continents and delves deeply into his own beautiful heart.”—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn’t choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent sixteen months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and reflections drew hundreds of thousands of followers, all gathered around the question: What makes a life worth living? In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Jed narrates his adventure—the people and places he encountered on his way to the bottom of the world—as well as the internal journey that started it all. As he traverses cities, mountains, and inner boundaries, Jenkins grapples with the question of what it means to be an adult, his struggle to reconcile his sexual identity with his conservative Christian upbringing, and his belief in travel as a way to wake us up to life back home. A soul-stirring read for the wanderer in each of us, To Shake the Sleeping Self is an unforgettable reflection on adventure, identity, and a life lived without regret. Praise for To Shake the Sleeping Self “[Jenkins is] a guy deeply connected to his personal truth and just so refreshingly present.”—Rich Roll, author of Finding Ultra “This is much more than a book about a bike ride. This is a deep soul deepening us. Jedidiah Jenkins is a mystic disguised as a millennial.”—Tom Shadyac, author of Life’s Operating Manual “Thought-provoking and inspirational . . . This uplifting memoir and travelogue will remind readers of the power of movement for the body and the soul.”—Publishers Weekly |
| willi prittie: The Gentleman's and London Magazine , 1741 |
| willi prittie: The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time Great Britain. Parliament, 1819 |
| willi prittie: Background Notes United States. Department of State. Office of Media Services, |
| willi prittie: A Noble Treason Richard Hanser, 2012 Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans were handsome, bright university students in 1942 Germany. As members of the Hitler Youth, they had once been enthusiastic supporters of the German renewal promised by National Socialism. But as their realization of Nazi barbarism grew, so did their moral outrage. Hans and Sophie formed a small group of like-minded friends, which initially included two medical students, a student of philosophy, and a fifty-year-old professor. They self-identified as Christians from various traditionsProtestant, Catholic, and Orthodoxand they called themselves the White Rose. In a darkened studio lent them by an artist, they printed eloquent anti-Nazi leaflets, which they ingeniously spread throughout Germany. A Noble Treason tells the true story of this underground group at the University of Munich that instigated, organized, and carried out the first overt resistance to Hitlers regime. What gives A Noble Treason its unforgettable and inspiring quality is the personality, character, and courage of the White Rose members, as they resisted the pull of wartime patriotism and overcame their fear of the terrible price they would pay for their dissidence. The story of the White Rose is one of faith-inspired idealism in deadly conflict with ideological tyranny. Its theme is the ultimate victory of that idealism despite its bloodyand seemingly finaldestruction by the state. |
| willi prittie: Communist Eastern Europe; Analytical Survey of Literature United States. Department of the Army, 1971 |
| willi prittie: The Parliamentary Debates Great Britain. Parliament, 1820 |
| willi prittie: Reunification and West German-Soviet Relations Werner Feld, 2012-12-06 The intellectual debts which I have incurred in the preparation of this study are many. Foremost, I wish to express my warm appreciation and gratitude to Professor Henry L. Mason for his sound advice, gentle encouragement, and continuous guidance. In addition, I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Professors David R. Deener, Warren RobertsJr. and John L. Snell for their critical comments and helpful suggestions which led to frequent and fruitful reconsideration of the substance and form of the inquiry. I am also very grateful to Professor J. W. Smurr who made many constructive suggestions with regard to the content and style of the manuscript. A special debt is owed to Mr. Jon Reinhardt who read the manu script in its entirety and suggested a number of stylistic improvements. Richard Paulig, former Consul-General of the Federal Republic of Ger in New Orleans, La., was most helpful by assisting in the col many, lection of certain source materials, and the staff members of the Bundestag library in Bonn, Germany, under the direction of Bibliotheksoberrat Dr. Heinz Matthes aided the research for this study with outstanding efficiency. Finally, my most heartfelt expressions of gratitude are re served for my wife, Betty, whose encouragement and sympathetic understanding have helped me through this work. |
| willi prittie: The Michigan Surname Index , 1984 |
| willi prittie: Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1979 |
| willi prittie: The Peerage of Ireland: Or, a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom John Lodge, 1789 |
| willi prittie: The Diggers of Colditz Jack Champ, Colin Burgess, 2019-06-17 Colditz Castle was Nazi Germany’s infamous ‘escape-proof’ wartime prison, where hundreds of the most determined and resourceful Allied prisoners were sent. Despite having more guards than inmates, Australian Lieutenant Jack Champ and other prisoners tirelessly carried out their campaign to escape from the massive floodlit stronghold, by any means necessary. In this riveting account – by turns humorous, heartfelt and tragic – historian Colin Burgess and Lieutenant Jack Champ, from the point of view of the prisoners themselves, tell the story of the twenty Australians who made this castle their ‘home’, and the plans they made that were so crazy that some even achieved the seemingly impossible – escape! ‘A stirring testimony of mateship . . . We are often on tenterhooks, always impressed by their determination, industry and courage’ Australian Book Review |
| willi prittie: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage, and Companionage , 1915 |
| willi prittie: Deutscher Literatur-Katalog Koch, Neff & Oetinger & Co.; Koehler & Volckmar, 1980 |
| willi prittie: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage Bernard Burke, 1929 |
| willi prittie: The Peerage of Ireland John Lodge, Mervyn Archdall, 1789 |
| willi prittie: Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire , 1858 |
| willi prittie: The Cat - E-Book Susan E. Little, 2024-03-05 Comprehensive in scope and exclusively devoted to feline medical care, Dr. Susan Little's The Cat: Clinical Medicine and Management, 2nd Edition, is an essential resource for providing complete, state-of-the-art care to cats. Authoritative, clinically focused information is enhanced by full-color images, tables, boxes, algorithms, key points, and more — all in an easy-to-understand, quick-reference format. Dr. Little and her expert contributors address the unique concerns and challenges facing any practitioner providing care for cats, including the latest advances in feline medical diagnosis and management and the clinical applications to everyday practice. An eBook version, included with print purchase, provides access to all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. The eBook also offers convenient video lessons and client handouts. - Covers the latest advances in feline medicine from a systemic and adjunctive care perspective, making it the most comprehensive feline medical reference available with a strong clinical focus. - Addresses key topics unique to feline medicine and not currently covered in other books, including: insights and clinical advances attributable to the mapping of the feline genome; medical conditions associated with behavioral problems; managing the feline patient with co-existing and chronic diseases; special medical problems and care considerations for the geriatric cat; environmental enrichment for the indoor cat; feline zoonotic agents and implications for human health; and humane solutions for shelter medicine and overpopulation challenges. - Helps meet the increasing demand for state-of-the-art medical care by cat owners, including advanced diagnostic services and treatments designed to extend and improve quality of life for feline companions. - Features a full-color design with hundreds of schematic drawings, tables, boxes, key points, algorithms, and photographs for quick and easy access to information. - Provides in-depth information on indoor cats and senior cats, including timely guidance on meeting owners' expectations for longer, healthier lives for their cats. - Addresses the challenges of cat overpopulation, particularly humane approaches to improve quality of life for millions of feral and community cats and minimize their impact on public health and endangered species of animals. - Presents information written in the manner of expanded conference proceedings, delivering the latest insights and most current approaches to management of feline medical disorders. - Includes contributions from approximately 80 contributors, including many from outside the US, to provide a global perspective and valuable expertise from those most knowledgeable in the field of feline medical care. |
| willi prittie: Library of Congress Catalogs Library of Congress, 1976 |
| willi prittie: Once They Moved Like The Wind David Roberts, 1994-07-19 Recounts the days of the Indian wars when the U.S. Cavalry repeatedly tried to subdue the great warriors led by Cochise and, later, Geronimo. |
| willi prittie: The Bold and Cold Brandon Pullan, 2016-03-18 Over the past 100 years, climbers have been pushing standards in the Canadian Rockies. From long alpine ridges to steep north faces, the Rockies are synonymous with cutting-edge ascents. Peaks such as Robson, Chephren, Kitchener, the Twins and Alberta elude the many and reward the few. Many of the big faces were climbed between the 1960s and 1990, the golden age of alpinism in the Rockies. The men and women who first were part of that set high standards. Future alpinists read old journals and guidebooks, hoping to experience what the alpine pioneers did. For most, the Rockies require a certain edge that comes with age, humiliation and failure. Perhaps the ones who drink the most whisky, dream of the biggest peaks and sleep with snowballs in their hands are the ones rewarded with the momentary triumph of coming to a draw with one of these mountains. This is not a guidebook. Rather, it is a narrative history by the people who risked life and limb to establish these long, difficult and sometimes scary climbs. |
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Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver …
Jun 13, 2012 · Prader-Willi syndrome is caused by genetic changes on an "unstable" region of chromosome 15 that affects the regulation of gene expression, or how genes turn on and off. …
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Dec 29, 2021 · PWS is the most common of the genetic disorders that cause life-threatening obesity in children. The syndrome affects many aspects of the person's life, including eating, …
What are the treatments for Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS)?
Jun 13, 2012 · Sporadic imprinting defects in Prader-Willi syndrome and Angelman syndrome: Implications for imprint-switch models, genetic counseling, and prenatal diagnosis. American …
What causes Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS)? - NICHD
May 16, 2018 · Prader-Willi syndrome is caused by genetic changes on an "unstable" region of chromosome 15 that affects the regulation of gene expression, or how genes turn on and off. …
How do healthcare providers diagnose Prader-Willi syndrome …
May 16, 2018 · In many cases of Prader-Willi syndrome, diagnosis is prompted by physical symptoms in the newborn. If a newborn is unable to suck or feed for a few days and has a …
What are the symptoms of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS)?
May 30, 2012 · The changing purpose of Prader-Willi syndrome clinical diagnostic criteria and proposed revised criteria. Pediatrics. 108, e92. Retrieved on May 30, 2012, from …
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Experimental therapy for Prader-Willi syndrome shows promise in …
Dec 26, 2016 · PWS is caused by genetic changes along a section of chromosome 15 called the Prader-Willi critical region. Under normal circumstances, genes in this region are inactive, or …
About Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDDs)
Aug 12, 2012 · IDDs are disorders that are usually present at birth and that uniquely affect the trajectory of the individual’s physical, intellectual, and/or emotional development.
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver …
Jun 13, 2012 · Prader-Willi syndrome is caused by genetic changes on an "unstable" region of chromosome 15 that affects the regulation of gene expression, or how genes turn on and off. …
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) | NICHD - NICHD - Eunice …
Dec 29, 2021 · PWS is the most common of the genetic disorders that cause life-threatening obesity in children. The syndrome affects many aspects of the person's life, including eating, …
What are the treatments for Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS)?
Jun 13, 2012 · Sporadic imprinting defects in Prader-Willi syndrome and Angelman syndrome: Implications for imprint-switch models, genetic counseling, and prenatal diagnosis. American …
What causes Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS)? - NICHD
May 16, 2018 · Prader-Willi syndrome is caused by genetic changes on an "unstable" region of chromosome 15 that affects the regulation of gene expression, or how genes turn on and off. …
How do healthcare providers diagnose Prader-Willi syndrome …
May 16, 2018 · In many cases of Prader-Willi syndrome, diagnosis is prompted by physical symptoms in the newborn. If a newborn is unable to suck or feed for a few days and has a …
What are the symptoms of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS)?
May 30, 2012 · The changing purpose of Prader-Willi syndrome clinical diagnostic criteria and proposed revised criteria. Pediatrics. 108, e92. Retrieved on May 30, 2012, from …
Prader-Willi Syndrome Resources | NICHD - NICHD - Eunice …
Dec 29, 2021 · MedlinePlus: Prader-Willi Syndrome This website, from the National Library of Medicine at NIH, offers information and links to additional details and services related to PWS. …
NICHD Prader-Willi Syndrome Research Information
Dec 29, 2021 · Prader-Willi syndrome encompasses a set of related conditions with a range of symptoms that affect eating and metabolism, growth, behavior, and intellectual development. …
Experimental therapy for Prader-Willi syndrome shows promise in …
Dec 26, 2016 · PWS is caused by genetic changes along a section of chromosome 15 called the Prader-Willi critical region. Under normal circumstances, genes in this region are inactive, or …
About Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDDs)
Aug 12, 2012 · IDDs are disorders that are usually present at birth and that uniquely affect the trajectory of the individual’s physical, intellectual, and/or emotional development.
