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In a corporate blog post, CEO Jason Fried wrote that there will be “No more societal and political discussions on our company Basecamp account.” He said that “Todays social and political waters are especially choppy. Sensitivities are at 11, and every discussion remotely related to politics, adv...

LOOK: South African group reaches Everest Base Camp despite global Covid restrictions A group of 15 South Africans reached Everest Base Camp despite the global Covid pandemic. It was the trip of a lifetime for participants, Prof Sonia Human, Rose Mills, Marius Fourie and John Thöle, Emily Farrell, Rory and Linda Macfarlane, Klasie Wessels, Sue Pearson, and Devin Baird. The group flew from Katmandu in Nepal to the Tenzing-Hillary Airport, known as one of the world’s most dangerous airports, i...

On April 15, a climber at Everest Base Camp became the first known case of COVID-19 documented at the foot of the world’s highest peak. It’s hard to get a complete picture of what the disease is doing at Everest right now, but the situation only appears to be getting worse.  “I have taken a helicopter out of EBC back to Kathmandu after 1 day,” Gina Marie Han-Lee, a climber from New York, wrote on Facebook on April 29. “The Covid situation at EBC is a total shitstorm. I had no clue...

Share this article Share this article PALM BEACH, Fla., April 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The global pandemic was expected to negatively impact the global economy… and it did, but there were some markets that exceeded expectations… and grew during the crisis. Industry insider BDSA (formerly BDS Analytics) said in a recent report that: "The cannabis industry faced numerous challenges in the past few years, none so potentially disruptive as the coronavirus pandemic in 2020," said Micah Tapman, C...

Transcript Matt Dyer: The breath, you would not believe the smell of that bear’s breath. He’s dragging me, and I just, a voice he could mean said, you know, you you’re going to die.  Host: Polar bears, the grand beasts of the Arctic, are one of the most fearsome predators on earth. Healthy males can weigh half a ton, stand eight feet tall on their hind legs, and possess enough power to get all that mass moving at 25 miles per hour. Few sights in nature will inspire the sense of panic and...

The mountaineers ready and waiting to climb Everest, despite the dangers After Nepal tentatively reopened its borders to trekkers, the first case of Covid-19 reached Everest Base Camp last week Covid adds another complication to scaling Everest, but climbers remain undeterred Credit: Getty  On the face of things, trekking in Nepal should be an ideal activity for the Covid age. It’s outdoors, in the open air. It takes place in a remote wilderness. And if you avoid the main trails and trek out...

Dozens of skiers met at the top of the Village Express at Snowmass after last chair on Sunday to remember Steve “Wigs” Wiggins, a longtime local who spent more than four decades in the community as a ski instructor, photographer and fly-fishing guide.

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Ecliptic Brewing Will Open Its Second Facility in the Former Base Camp Brewing Space The new location, dubbed “The Moon Room,” will open sometime later this summer. Ecliptics original North Portland location. IMAGE: Hilary Sander. Updated April 28 Ecliptic Brewing is expanding by taking over the building that was formerl...

The announcement by Basecamp, a company that makes productivity software, follows a surge of employee activism and corporate action on social issues.

Sherpa captures one of the darkest times in the history of mountaineering on Mount Everest. OPINION: Everest’s groundhog season goes like this: deaths every year since 1977 (apart from the cancelled 2020 season); climbers overtaking the dying and stepping over the dead; tents discarded with logos ripped off so the commercial climbing operator goes unpunished; heavy oxygen cylinders and thousands of kilograms of human waste left behind; oxygen bottles being stolen in the “death zone” abov...