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January 22, 2021 6:54 am KGMI BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Today is the deadline for homeless campers at Bellingham City Hall to move back 25 feet from the building. Mayor Seth Fleetwood says the city has to act after more than two months of an unsustainable situation. He says the City is using an incremental approach to end the encampment; they want to do this with a soft touch and in a humane way. Fleetwood noted that it is not a sweep as some have claimed. He says the Base Camp run by the Lighthou...

January 22, 2021 6:59 am KGMI BELLINGHAM, Wash. — In anticipation of possible snow and cold weather this weekend and the City Hall tent encampment restriction beginning today, January 22nd, Lighthouse Mission Ministries’ Base Camp is open and prepared. Executive Director Hans Erchinger-Davis says the Base Camp is prepared to provide 24-hour homeless services for up to 229 people. As of Wednesday, 96 beds were reported available at Base Camp and the Overflow Shelter at the former drop-in ce...

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Bellingham notifies City Hall tent encampment residents of cleanup coming Friday The Bellingham Herald 1/21/2021 Denver Pratt, The Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, Wash.) Jan. 21—The City of Bellingham notified people staying in a temporary tent encampment at Bellingham City Hall that they would have to stop camping and remove their belongings by Friday morning. The citys Public Works Department provided notice to campers, volunteers and organizers at Camp 210 on Tuesday, Jan....

Triumphant team shares experience of making history on second highest mountain

Nepali climbers who made history at the weekend by becoming the first to summit the world's second-highest mountain in winter told Wednesday how they battled hurricane-force winds and freezing temperatures to achieve the record.

Sergi Mingote on Lhotse. Photo: Sergi Mingote. As is often true in the mountains, triumph has walked hand in hand with tragedy this winter in the Karakorum. The first winter ascent of K2 (8,848 meters), undertaken by a fully Nepalese team (with co-leader Nirmal “Nims” Purja summiting without bottled oxygen), has captivated viewers around the globe. Sadly, just prior to the ascent, the Spaniard Sergi Mingote, Co-Leader of the Seven Summits Treks (SST) team on K2, perished after a long fall w...

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Nepali climbers who made history at the weekend by becoming the first to summit the world's second-highest mountain in winter told Wednesday how they battled hurricane-force winds and freezing temperatures to achieve the record. "The weather conditions were really, really horrendous, the temperature was up to minus 65 degrees Celsius (minus 85 degrees Fahrenheit) -- there were hurricane (strength winds) but 10 climbers from Nepal managed to make...

Boston COVID doctor and Harvard lecturer, 56, dies in fall while climbing one of the worlds highest mountains in Pakistan Dr Alex Goldfarb-Rumyantzev was climbing Pastore Peak near K2 in Karakoram mountains when he went missing on Saturday  His body was discovered on Monday by Pakistani military after apparent fall  Goldfarb and his mountaineering partner were preparing to ascend Broad Peak, worlds 12th highest mountain  Goldfarb, a well-respected medical doctor and Harvard lecturer, had ...