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For high-altitude climbers, the "holy grail of mountaineering" sits on the border of China and Pakistan. The peak is called K2, and it is the second-highest mountain on Earth. K2 is just 800 feet shorter than Mount Everest, but it’s considered a far more dangerous climb. Just over 300 people have reached the summit, but 80 climbers have died on K2, making the death rate about 25 percent.
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Mary Tillman joined the show to talk about the documentary The Tillman Story, which is about her son Pat’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan. Tillman liked the movie very much. "It presents Pat in a much more human light," Tillman said. "He was sort of a caricature before that." Tillman also liked the film because to her it tells a bigger truth. "It points to the horrible deception that was played out to the American public and to us," Tillman said. Tillman maintains the military lied to her and covered up the circumstances of Pat’s death. And she says Pat isn’t alone there. Tillman said that the military decided to spin it as a glorious death as a propaganda tool. And to do that, the military destroyed evidence. "We really don’t know exactly what happened to him," Tillman said. Tillman said we have to hear this story, because these type of things happen all the time. "I think it’s really important for people to realize that organizations are always going to have people who are going to do things that aren’t above the board," Tillman said. On a side note, Mary also said that Pat wanted to go back to the NFL at some point.
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British mountaineer George Mallory wanted to be the first man to conquer Mount Everest, but his 1924 expedition instead ended in his tragic death. Mallory’s body was found 75 years later. The movie The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest,retraces Mallory’s expedition.
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Seven time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong calls it the start of “something special.” He and Governor Ritter announced Wednesday that Colorado would host a seven day stage race next August called the Quiznos Pro Challenge. It’s really the reincarnation of a legendary race that happened more than 20 years ago in Colorado called the Coors Classic. It was at one point the fourth largest pro cycling race in the world and well poised to become America’s own Tour de France. By the time the race ended in 1988, the Coors Classic had helped launch the careers of U.S. cycling greats such as Greg Lemond and Boulder resident Davis Phinney. The Classic was also an event that pro cyclist Dale Stetina never missed. Stetina who lives in Boulder did his first Coors Classic when he was just 17. He won the race in 1979 and 1983. We caught up with Dale Stetina at his Boulder home and asked him what the hardest stage of the Coors Classic was.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research hits the ripe old age of 50 this year. But the center in Boulder is using the latest in satellites and supercomputers to study some even older problems — like hurricanes and tornadoes. Don’t think of that work being done in a drab lab though — some of it’s performed in a dramatic building that famed architect I.M. Pei designed early in his career. Sarah Hughes speaks with Richard Anthes, president of NCAR’s parent organization, and with Lucy Warner, the center’s communications director, about NCAR’s history and the role it plays in scientific discovery today.
Adam Sandler joined the show to talk about Grown Ups and sports. Dan asked Sandler if he wants his Knicks to get LeBron James. Sandler said he actually wants Dwyane Wade in New York and he thinks it could happen. Dan said that Phil Jackson did yell at Chris Rock during the NBA finals, but he got less mad when he realized the interview was with Rock. Sandler explained why he couldn’t come up to Dan at the Premiere of Grown Ups. But he said Dan was great in the film. Sandler also said that Dan kills it in the movie in his scene with Dave Matthews, Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman.
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Dan’s co-star in Grown Ups David Spade joined the show to talk about the upcoming movie and the rules of sitting next to the Lakers bench. Spade said that Kobe Bryant is always right next to the bench. "I’m literally touching knees with Kobe," Spade said. Spade said that he thinks that the players don’t really like all the celebrities sitting there. Spade said that Chris Rock was yelling things like "box out" into the huddle. Spade thinks Jackson said "Really, during the timeout?" to Rock. Spade thinks that Jackson was kidding, but he wasn’t sure. Spade said Jackson is a bit of a "Big Foot." Spade also weighed in on his personal life. He claims he’s not dating Padma Lakshmi despite recent reports. You can find out all about Dan’s character in Grown Ups in the movie at this Web site.
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In his long career as a sports columnist, Rick Reilly has covered the biggest games, including the Super Bowl, World Series and the Masters. But for his new book, Sports from Hell, Reilly sought out the championships of decidedly less conventional sports, such as chess boxing and rock, paper, scissors.
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This past week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the fourth-generation iPhone. It’s just one more achievement for Apple, now the largest tech company in the world, worth well over $220 billion. The story of Apple’s founding is the stuff of legend in Silicon Valley. Two young programmers, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created the company out of nothing. But there was a third founder — Ron Wayne. On April Fools’ Day 1976, he got together with Jobs and Wozniak to write Apple’s incorporation document. He typed up the three pages himself, and even designed the company’s first logo. Whatever has been, has been. I learned a long time ago not to ‘what if’ these things. - Ron Wayne, Apple’s third founder But only 12 days later, Wayne left Apple and a 10 percent stake in the company that today would be worth billions. Wayne now lives in a modest home in Pahrump, Nev., just outside Las Vegas — and survives, primarily, off his Social Security check and a small business selling vintage coins. NPR’s Guy Raz spoke with Wayne to hear the story of Apple’s "lost" third founder, who says he has no regrets. "Whatever has been, has been," said Wayne. "I learned a long time ago not to ‘what if’ these things." After Apple made it big, Jobs offered Wayne employment with the company — twice. But Wayne refused. "I like to take things from beginning to end," said Wayne. "Where I can wear six or seven hats. I couldn’t do that at Apple." Wayne says he doesn’t own any Apple products. But he’s content with his life and happy for Jobs. "I’ve never been rich," Wayne said. "But I’ve never been hungry, either."
Lightning is one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of the atmospheric sciences, researchers say. Scientists at the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing in Florida are inducing lightning to strike so they can understand it better. (Credits: Video footage courtesy of Martin Uman, University of Florida and Tom A. Warner, ztresearch.com. Though summer doesn’t begin officially for a few weeks, one of the signature marks of summer may already be in the air near you — the evening thunderstorm. Thousands of lightning strikes occur on the planet every minute, but the summer heat and humidity help to ramp up the number of lightning-producing thunderstorms. We’ll talk about the science of lightning.
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