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He is a short , burly man in his mid-40s , a self-described climber and photojournalist , married to Farkhondeh Sadegh , 37 , one of the first Muslim women to summit Mount Everest ( in May 2005 ) . So here 's where I find myself when my soul finally catches up to my body : I am sunburned and barefoot and trudging along an Indian riverbank of mud and sand and human remains . The mostly black southern Sudanese , either Christian or animist , have been fighting the mostly Arab , Muslim northerners , who rule this vast country , for the majority of the 45 years since Sudan gained independence from Great Britain . He took her hand - the contact of an excited child to a parent , not man to woman - and moved so quickly she stumbled along behind . En route you 'll traverse the spine of the rugged Sawtooth Mountains , hiking through birch and aspen , a section of old-growth maple , and redolent stands of spruce and balsam . Ever since , the herd has been showing up right on schedule . During our first attempt we reached this point in two days . I search for handholds , sliding belly-to-stone along the ledge , until I reach the reward — a sizeable stone building overlooking the canyon . He flew through the air , then hit the snow with a sickening crunch . Arab women covered in black burkas , their eyes greeting the world through tiny slits . Italian climber Alessandro Beltrami peers out from the ledge where we bivouacked during our ascent . That meant more and more people were crossing the deserts of Arizona , especially in the Cabeza and neighboring Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.In 2002 the traffic through the Cabeza just exploded , Di Rosa said . " By late May the lion had killed ten more villagers and wounded three more , raising his solo attack count since October to 32 and the total count since the outbreak began to 54 . Leigh Mitchell watched the brightly lit spokes of the Ferris wheel revolve , feeling once again that life in Henderson County had n't changed much since she was five years old . This shoreline is at once sewer , sink , and cemetery for the surrounding villagers , and my tired legs are caked to the thigh in indeterminate river yuck . He knew the terrible sweetness of the melancholy in that music and how it soothed his father to be there within it . If you ever just want to do a little cogitating , or join Gaia in rapturous union , or just be way , way far alone , this is the place and the time . And they've been back again every year since . From Escalante , in search of solitude and beauty , Ruess rode southeast along the Hole in the Rock Trail , which had been blazed by Mormon pioneers in 1879 . But he 'd been pulled across the miles by the innocent and secure memories engraved during the one care-free summer of his youth . Hillman dove to arrest himself , but a moment later he , too , was being dragged down the mountain , the pick of his ax leaving a ragged line through the soft ice . Slutter 's team had met up with Hillman and Biggs during the ascent , and the men had all snapped pictures of one another on the summit . Yet many experts , such as former UN Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix , believe it 's a cover for the secret production of nuclear weapons.There are myriad implications of this difference of opinion — thankfully it would be mostly theory and rhetoric during my month-long stay , this past May and June — but one tangible result is that a country just opening to Western tourism has now been clamped shut and braced for an international showdown . Sometime in 1990 , while I was recovering from a biking accident , I did some soul searching and determined that competition for competition 's sake was empty .