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Scared Silly
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 22, 2007 - 07:06pm PT
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Robert H. Bates, teacher, author, mountaineer and
first Peace Corps Director in Nepal, died on Thursday,
September 13, in Exeter, New Hampshire. He was 96.
http://obit.brewittfuneralhome.com/obit_display.cgi?id=458140
Over the past few years when visiting the east coast I would stop in and chat with Bob and Gail. Amazing folks. There are only a few of the old guard left if you get the cahnce visit with them do it.
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marky
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Sep 22, 2007 - 07:15pm PT
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I always dug "Savage Mountain". The genuine camaraderie of the Americans on K2 in the 1950s probably would jar some contemporary readers of mountaineering literature (see, e.g., "Into Thin Air").
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