For many climbers, Everest is usually a one-time deal,

If it's an environmental expedition, it seems to me the primary goal should be to clean up what's on Everest like the tent parts, oxygen bottles and other trash. It gets to be misleading when you run the whole media gamut.

Here's the interesting part. The people who go to Everest on a regular basis, like the commercial expeditions that go back and forth each year, while some don't like the commercial outfitters, one benefit is that when they go, they know they're going back the next year. So they're less likely to leave their trash because they're camping there next year.

It's a really pristine place and any garbage up there is seen as an atrocity because someone had to haul it up there. It didn't get up there by itself.

The meeting went on as normal. It started on time and it was completed in a normal way, ... Our message to those people who have been demonstrating is that the way forward for those people who want to reduce poverty and ... and to see a diffusion of prosperity around the world is not to advocate turning our back on the global economy and not to advocate a retreat from international economic cooperation.

At a time when millions are displaced and seeking federal and state assistance, we believe it is inappropriate to move forward on ... a legislative package that would cut funding for Medicaid, food stamps ... housing and education.