Outpost63 contents MAY/JUNE 2008
In Every Issue 6 Mail Stop Your letters answered
9 Tripping Waxing poetic and having a whale of a time with our distant cousins
10 On the Fringe Pyramid construction codes, sneaky squirrels and a new shrew
13 Local Knowledge Braving the clippers for the cheapest buzz in Abuja, Nigeria
16 Gourmet du Monde All hail red-hot harissa!
19 Healthpost Safety tips to keep your head above water
22 Field Notes Black Hawks and biodiversity atlases: the drama and detail of expedition leadership
28 MEC’s The Traveller’s Edge Tips from and for world trekkers
30 Going Hard Do climbers’ ethics nose-dive alongside oxygen levels in Everest’s death zone?
68 World Writes Get inside a grizzly’s head, see the North in fiction’s garb, and ponder Everest’s 2006 tragedy
70 Backpackerz Buzz News from Hostelling International
78 Wright of Way Ian Wright talks climbers down from the ledge PHOTOGRAPHY: COVER, GRANT FAINT THIS PAGE, (TOP) GRANT FAINT, (BOTTOM) DIANNE WHELAN
Features 32 A Fine Balance
Story: Kathryn Jezer-Morton Photography: Vladimir Sanchez It's not just the greenery that’s thriving in Colombia’s isolated Chocó department. Against all odds, locals plant the seeds of conservation
44 Desert Cure
Story: Shanna Baker Photography: Grant Faint and Shanna Baker Is the Cure Salée a Saharan-style county fair, match-making venue or beauty pageant? Whatever it is, Niger’s nomads call it a good time
56 The Agony and the Ecstasy Story and Photography by: Dianne Whelan
In a landscape infused with spirituality, one writer battles body and soul on a tough trek to Everest Base Camp