...Kitchens isn't just going for a spot on the podium. He wants a number: 8.95 meters."I'm just going to prepare my mind and my body to beat the world record and see what happens," he said. "You got to strive for Mount Everest."

...calls a "mountaintop experience.""When you climb Mount Everest, I don't think you're going to go rush over and...It's just one of those things. And maybe that Mount Everest experience causes those guys to just let down just a...

...crammed enough provisions into the Kirby Conestogas to survive the Oregon Trail, the Mayflower voyage and two trips up Mount Everest.When we got to the college town, it started raining again and the only spot I could find was at the far corner...

...tower over his peers, he left records that endured for decades. And for 50 years, one mighty number has stood as the Mount Everest of sport's magic numbers. 100 points.At 25, Chamberlain had already crafted a career built on steady, sustained...

...Stratosphere observation tower in Las Vegas.Next April, the Savannah ophthalmologist is planning a little hike up Mount Everest.Still, what's happening this morning in Savannah has got her pumped. Miller, who has more than 50 marathons under...

...would have filled 19,000 20-foot containers."If you stacked them up, they would be nine times the height of Mount Everest," he said. "There is no mountain of metal to be found."The massive effort met the end-of-the-year deadline...

...We're not mathematically eliminated yet," Lady Jaguars coach Nate Teymer said. "But now we're climbing up Mount Everest."After defeating Francis Marion on the road earlier this season, Augusta State got out of the gate slowly, making...

...hopefully good lawyer fighting an enormous, aggressive legal system with unlimited financial resources.Add to that legal Mount Everest the emergence of charismatic, recklessly relentless, prosecutorial character assassins such as Nancy Grace with unlimited...

...None of my teachers ever tried to pass the South Pole off as a desert palm. I grew up in the figurative shadow of Mount Everest because of its 1953 conquest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay; everyone knew that, at 29,029 feet, it was...

...with a fictionalized take on the horrors of the Taliban. "Into Thin Air," by Jon Krakauer. A disastrous ascent up Mount Everest will leave you gasping for air, Ms. Deriso says. "To Kill a Mockingbird," by Harper Lee. Her coming-of-age...