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Article: Into thin air Former local man iinspired to make a Himalayan ascent with eyes on Mount Everest
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- January 11, 2009
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Something uplifting happened to Nathan Dolbeare when he traveled
from the plains of his native Illinois to the American West as a
boy.
"The mountains captured my attention," he said.
A passion for peaks still grips him at age 38. He recently spent
6 weeks on a quest to climb Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in
the world. Located on the border of China and Tibet, the summit is
27,765 feet, or 8,201 meters.
"There's only 14 mountains in the world over 8,000 meters, and
you can see three or four of them from the top (of Cho Oyu),"
Dolbeare said.
He and his wife, Kris, moved from the Twin Cities five years ago
when his bosses let him "telecommute" to the job he held in
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