Robert Isenberg

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What Tourists Must Know About New York's Increasingly Dangerous Subway Platforms Chie Inoue/Shutterstock All Joseph Lynskey wanted to do was go home. On December 31, 2024, Lynskey was standing in a Manhattan subway station, waiting for a train to Brooklyn. Just as the train approached, a random assailant pushed him off the edge of the platform, landing him between the two tracks.

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One Life-Saving Key To Successfully Summiting Mt. Everest Isn't Just A Rule, It's A Law Daniel Prudek/Shutterstock No matter how much time passes, attempting to climb Mt. Everest remains a dangerous pursuit. Yes, more than 7,000 people have reached the summit as of December 2024. Yes, equipment has radically improved since 1953, when Ed Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first documented climbers to reach the top.

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2 days agoShe Made History Climbing Everest Without Oxygen—But Her New Memoir Tells a Bigger StoryMelissa Arnot Reid goes unfiltered “This book is probably not what you might expect it to be,” says Melissa Arnot Reid of her new memoir Enough. Reid is the first American woman to summit Everest—and survive the descent—without supplemental oxygen.

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TSA's Guidelines Allow You To Pack This Common But Intimidating Piece Of Climbing Gear Jaromir Chalabala/Shutterstock To climb a mountain, you have to have the right equipment, and a lot of mountaineers are also avid gearheads. They spend their spare cash on helmets, nylon ropes, insulated boots, and altimeter watches. If you want to give a birthday gift, mountain climbers will gratefully accept a new headlamp or pulley.

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One Of America's Most Hated Roads Is A Pennsylvania Highway To Avoid On A Road Trip William Thomas Cain/Getty Images The Pennsylvania Turnpike is not anyone's version of paradise. It's an East Coast highway, so the Turnpike is crushingly boring by default — two or three lanes of asphalt extending forever, with miles of trees and grass on either side.