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Double leg amputee scales Mount Kilimanjaro
A double leg amputee has pulled himself up Africa’s highest mountain, disproving doctors who said he would never be a functioning member of society.” Spencer West, 31, lost his legs as a child after a genetic disorder — sacral agenesis — paralyzed the lower half of his body. But he…
Race to map Africa’s forgotten glaciers before they melt away
A team of scientists and photographers aims to document the Earth’s fading glaciers Ptolemy thought they were the source of the Nile and called them the Mountains of the Moon because of the perpetual mists that covered them; Stanley claimed to be the first non-African to see their icecap; and…
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