This was a busy week on Everest with the first summits for the 2010season along with a risky gamble. And several accidents and, sadly, areported death on nearby Lhotse.A team of nine Sherpas fixed the ropes to the summit on the southside. They Corum 396-250-20-B100-FM30R Men's watch included Sherpas from IMG, Alpine Ascents and Himex. Onewestern guide who was doing route work high on the mountain also joinedthem to the summit.These are some of the largest teams on the south side thus have theresources to fix the route. Other smaller teams carried some of theropes up the mountain or contributed in other ways.
On Saturday, a modern-day William Tell shot an arrow tipped with four razor blades in Cape Cod Bay. The target? A right whale with rope stuck around its jaw. Corum 396-250-20-B100-FB30R Men's watch But because this is 2010, not 1810, the goal was to sever the rope from the ensnared whale, who, according to The Boston Globe, had been carrying it around for more than two years and was now at risk of infection. Previous attempts to cut the rope were unsuccessful.So, a new technique was needed.
Cue Scott Landry, director of the Marine Animal Entanglement Response Team and, apparently, a crossbow expert. Because right whales are evasive animals, Landry (who was part of a team from the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies) had Corum 396-250-20-B100-EB30R Men's watch only one shot to try and snap the rope as the animal breached for a breath of air. Somewhat miraculously, it worked, and the whale (dubbed Wart) was not injured. Wed love to know if crossbow training comes standard with a job at the Marine Animal Entanglement Response Team.Video below is of right whales in Cape Cod Bay from 2008.-- Jennifer L. Schwartz
