Igor Rabiner has been writing about the NHL since the 1990s and is familiar with all of our heroes. On the eve of the Olympics, Bomboraora releases his book in two volumes about the fantastic fates of Russian stars that still dominate the NHL. The heroes of the first book were Alexander Ovechkin from the Washington Capitals, Evgeni Malkin from the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nikita Kucherov from '...

In May 1996 three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Crowded conditions slowed their progress. Late in the day twenty-three men and women-including expedition leaders Scott Fischer and Rob Hall-were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disoriented and out of oxygen, climbers struggled to find their way...