Pakistani climber drawn to beauty, perils of peaks
Spin City By Karen Kefauver April 10, 2015Link to Sentinel ArticleKarim Hayat stood on Broad Peak, which at 26,414 feet is the 12th highest peak in the world and third highest in Karakorum, Pakistan, without supplemental oxygen last July.Karim Hayat was 12 years old, sitting in...
‘Bicycle Built for Two Billion’ a Santa Cruz man’s 8-year odyssey
Spin City By Karen KefauverMarch 26, 2015Link to Sentinel ArticleNORTHERN IRELAND: Peaceful good times in Belfast’s Shankil road Jamie Bianchini never imagined that his business going bankrupt and his girlfriend leaving him would lead to his bicycling around the world —...
Love Makes the Wheels go Round
Spin City By Karen KefauverFebruary 13, 2015Link to Sentinel Article April Herring met Andrew Murray (not pictured) when both were solo riding up Bonny Doon Road in 2012. A year later, he proposed to her by posting a sign at the benches at the top of the climb, where he first...
Ken Foster’s Passion for Pedal-Powered Permaculture
Spin City By Karen KefauverJanuary 16, 2015Link to Sentinel ArticleKen Foster rides one of Terra Nova Ecological Landscaping’s rigs to a job site in Santa Cruz. (Shmuel Thaler — Santa Cruz Sentinel)If you’re headed south along the coast next Tuesday, there’s a...