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  • June 2008
    • Two Daredevils Climb Times Tower

      Two Daredevils Climb Times Tower

      (Newser) - Two men scaled the New York Times ' 52-story headquarters today within hours of each other, the New York Post reports. Police identified the first as Alain Robert, a French climber known as Spiderman for scaling skyscrapers with minimal equipment. He unfurled a banner reading, “Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week.” A second man, unidentified, climbed the building hours later. Both were arrested. More »

  • May 2008
    • Robot Offers Hope to Would-Be Spidermen

      Robot Offers Hope to Would-Be Spidermen

      (Newser) - Researchers have created a wall-climbing robot that uses electrically activated adhesion to get up any surface—dusty, wet, glass or concrete. Other Spiderman-imitating machines use a different kind of gecko-inspired technology and generate stronger sticking power than the new ‘bot, but the simplicity of the approach means it could work for human wall-climbing, MIT Technology Review reports. More »

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      technology   robot   climbing

  • January 2008
    • Mountain of Litter Spoiling Everest Majesty

      Mountain of Litter Spoiling Everest Majesty

      (Newser) - Mount Everest remains an irresistable lure for hundreds of climbers every year—and it shows in a bad way. In the wake of Edmund Hillary's death, the Independent surveys the landscape of the world's highest mountain and finds it littered with climbers' trash. It's a matter of logistics, experts say. It's simply not easy to schlep home empty oxygen containers and the like from 29,000 feet. More »

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      pollution   trash   Mount Everest   Edmund Hillary   climbing

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