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Update: Shasta woman acclimating for Everest climb(Sacramento Bee, The (CA) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Apr. 20--Laurie Bagley, the Mount Shasta woman hoping to summit Mount Everest next month ("Call of the mountain," Scene, March 9), arrived in Katmandu, Nepal, on April 3 and spent the next two weeks on a trek meant to acclimate her to the region. Starting May 1, her progress will be updated at www.nadineaiellographics.com/laurie/climb.php. That site is affiliated with a fundraising effort. It is not known if political unrest in Nepal will affect her summit attempt. There are two other sites to watch for news on Bagley's effort: * www.projecthimalaya.com/dispatches, the group she's climbing with. * www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=1805, where an image of Bagley in Nepal was posted April 10. To read the March 9 Bee story, go to www.sacbee.com/content/travel/outdoors/story/14227654p-15051320c.html. |