Spanish teacher returns with his 'harem' intact

Spanish teacher returns with his 'harem' intact

Aside from nearly losing one of the girls for 1,000 pesatas and 15 chickens at the Casbah in Tangiers the Sturgeon Bay high school students’ holiday trip to Spain came off without problems.
The 34 students, accompanied by Spanish teacher Robert Keberlein, Gus Abrahamson, Dr. and Mrs. Gerry Berg, left Dec. 27 to visit Tangier, Morocco, Gibraltar and Spain before returning Jan. 7.
According to Keberlein the trip this year was organized so the students were allowed a good deal of free time to mix with the people in Spain in addition to planned sightseeing tours.
The group started their adventures in Tangier with a trip through the Casbah (the native section of the city). Keberlein says a guide led the group and he followed up at the rear. At one time during the tour a native attempted to barter with Keberlein in exchange for some of the girls. “He offered me 1,000 pesetas and 15 chickens in exchange for one of the girls in my ‘harem.’”
In Morocco the group toured the Caves of Hercules and went for camel rides before departing on a ferry which took them across the Straits of Gibraltar, past the Rock of Gibraltar, to Spain.
“On New Year’s the students spent the evening with the Spanish. We took them downtown. Some went to the various discotheques and night clubs and some went with me,” Keberlein recalls. “The Spanish have a custom of eating 12 grapes in one minute beginning with the stroke of midnight.” He said everyone managed to down their 12 grapes.
Other sights of interest in Spain included the famous Moorish castle Alhambra, which was the last stronghold of the Moors in Spain. They also spent an afternoon at the Valley of the Fallen, the national monument dedicated to those who fell during the Spanish civil war in the 1930’s. This historic site is marked by a 50 story cement cross that stands at the entrance.
Keberlein explained how the students were introduced to the Spanish night life in Madrid. “Mr. and Mrs. Berg and I took the group to the older part of Madrid and they had to find their own way back to the hotel. It gave them a good chance to use their Spanish and no one got lost.”
Chaperone Jane Berg reports that the recent assassination of the premier of Spain had little effect on the people that country. “My friends there told me that it’s still the same type of government as before only with different faces.”
Mrs. Berg also said the Spanish are facing fewer restrictions, during the energy crisis than citizens in the United States. The streets and stores were still lit up for the holidays although they did cut back on the hours.
Keberlein said “People of this city can be proud of the way the students behaved. They were a credit to their country and their city.”
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~Hillary & Alec’s IG Stats~

• January 2024 = Hillary 17 posts & Alec 28 posts
• February 2024 = Hillary 8 posts & Alec 20 posts
• March 2024 = Hillary 2 posts & Alec 21 posts
• April 2024 = Hillary 4 posts & Alec 15 posts
• May 2024 = Hillary 5 posts & Alec 28 posts

Hillary’s IG Stats Overview

• May 2022 = 433 posts including the Chantecaille Episode = Hilz received lotions from luxury brand Chantecaille and posted a pic of Edu in a diaper with said lotions. The company didn’t repost, nor did they partner with her. Two days later, she donned her sewer slippers and accosted unsuspecting “needy” people, handing them gifts bags filled with Chantecaille lotions and $50 bills (and recorded herself doing so).
  
• May 2023 = 18 posts including the infamous “humpy yoga” fiasco featuring unnerving eye contact.
  

Every choice in this video was wilder than the last.

• May 2024 = 5 posts

~Recap~

• May started with Alec appearing on the “Our Way with Paul Anka and Skip Bronson” podcast. I tried recapping it, but it was basically three boring privileged old white men rambling about their wealth and privilege. Anka’s description of living in a “Murdoch created” gated community near Malibu near the “good airport” – to avoid the unwashed masses at LAX one presumes – was where I gave up on the recap idea and just listened with a scowl.
• Some lowlights:

On Having More Kids & Moving to Vermont
Alec: Well, in my family now, I'm the only person I know who drops four kids off at school in the morning and comes home and I still have three kids waiting for me. When I get home, I have seven - I have eight children. Ireland, my oldest daughter who's married, Ireland has a baby, and she and her boyfriend are living in Oregon. And I met my wife and I got remarried and I had seven kids in nine years. It's crazy. (I think you meant to say, “my wife is batshit crazy.” The devil is in the details, Zander)
And then, all of a sudden, I met my wife, who I love dearly, (I think he repeats this in virtually every interview to counter the years of talking shit about Kim Basinger) every time the baby would get to be two years old, we’d go, maybe it's time for one more baby, one more baby, so we have seven kids. But we're actually selling our house, moving to Vermont. We bought a place in Vermont, and I'm trying to get everybody to start to acclimate up there…I think my wife wants a little change of scenery now, it's so crowded out here…I love Vermont. It's so peaceful. We got a great deal. We got fifty-five acres; house was built in 1792. It's very pretty.
The Kids Want Alec Around All the Time
Host: What do you do away from your family? Meaning, do you play golf? Do you play tennis?
Alec: I play tennis all summer...The thing that's happened in these last ten years, especially the last three or four years, is my kids are used to me being around…I mean they really rely on that… when I'm gone, they're like, you know, they're on FaceTime. If I travel to go away for a couple of days to get a paycheck, they’re on my FaceTime going you know, where are you? What are you doing? You know, they're completely baffled when I go away. (God bless those kiddos and I’m preeetttttty sure they rely on Leonela/Leonetta a whole lot.)
Drug & Alcohol Use
Alec: Every day for two years, I think I snorted a line of cocaine from here to Saturn. We did one on the rings of Saturn. Then we came home. We took it back home. I mean, cocaine was like coffee back and everybody was doing it all day. I did a lot of coke and then I and then February 23rd, 1985…I stopped doing drugs and my drinking increased, which is they tell you that's going to happen, and that did happen. I just started drinking. I mean, and the thing, I miss drinking. I don't miss drugs at all, but I do miss drinking. I like to drink. (I appreciate next to nothing about this man, but I appreciate the honesty of this statement).
Host: But because you don't drink, and because you don't do drugs, what do you do? Do you meditate? What do you do to deal with the pressures of the outside, you know, forces, (I think you mean “lawsuits”, Paul) what do you do to get away from that?
Alec: (deadpan) Drink. I drink. I lied; I've been drinking nonstop since 1985. I lie. I tell people I'm sober and I drink my balls off. (Laughs) But no, I do miss drinking, I must say…New York relaxes me. I walk around and I see aspects of it that I've never seen before. I look at a building and I'll go, my god, I never noticed that about that building. Those doors. You know. New York is like a European city. You walk around and keep your eyes open. And I have lunches and coffee with my friends. (Um is he talking about the owner of Madman Espresso? Because that’s the only coffee related person we’ve ever seen him around.) And, I'd like to get out of here because the city is chaotic. (But also relaxing? What the hell?) But we live in the village. It's a little bit more residential. I love New York. I go to the symphony and the opera and the ballet all the time, you know, pretty regularly. But I do try to meditate. Meditating with seven children is like trying to play ping pong on the deck of an aircraft. It's a real pain in the ass. (But they rely on you, Alec?!?!)

• Back on IG, Alec commented on a video that Ireland posted of Kim Basinger and Ireland’s partner, André, playing with baby Holland, apparently in the backyard of Kim’s home. The doting abuelo’s comment was “I know that pool deck!” – dude, say something, ANYTHING, about your daughter’s child.

He probably screamed at poor Kim on that pool deck.

• An “entertainment” channel on YouTube posted an AI narrated video entitled “Laughing Through Parenthood: Alec and Hilaria Baldwin's Hilarious Family Adventures.” Friends, there is nothing remotely funny about this cheesy video, hence the 246 views (I’m responsible for one of them, sorry) and zero likes.
• Alec posted a picture of Marilu captioned “Louie…” and an actually lovely picture of Rafa dancing in a dance studio. Hopefully he and his bargain bin Salma Hayek wife are moving toward just occasionally posting pictures like this (face obscured, not invading the kid’s personal space) instead of the hundreds of invasive and inappropriate pictures Hillary used to post of the kids in the pre-Rust era.

An irate comment on Alec's IG: \"I cannot believe he is wearing street shoes on those floors!\" Now deleted.

• People magazine published a puff piece entitled “Alec Baldwin Is 'Understandably Worried' as His Rust Involuntary Manslaughter Trial Looms” (Exclusive Source). Here’s the entirely of what the exclusive source Yoel had to say:
  • "Alec is stressed. He is understandably worried."
  • "He has an excellent legal team. I don't think anyone is thinking jail time but given the decision for Ms. Gutierrez-Reed it’s hard to know."
  • "You have to understand that at the end of the day Alec is a professional actor, so when he's on set, you wind him up, you say action, he pulls out the gun and does whatever he's supposed to do on his job. Then suddenly he's facing criminal charges. It's like, how did that even happen?"
• In real news, the manslaughter charging document was released – interesting read!
• Surprisingly, Alec did not post a tribute to his wife to honor her “mi cultura upbringing” on the first Sunday in May - when it's celebrated in Spain.
• On May 6th, Alec’s lawyers vultures-for-hire filed additional motions to have the case dismissed while Said the Pap for hire posted a pic of himself with Crackhead Barney (who was wearing not much besides some Daisy Dukes a la Hillary Lynn) and Alec was spotted in the wild (with a nanny in tow, because only the peasants walk around without staff).

Imagine having to listen to this guy bloviate in addition to raising his kids.

• Rory Kenndy’s lawyers responded to a subpoena issued April 19th to provide video/audio of the Baldwin documentary in the works. Kennedy’s team responded that:
  • it would be “burdensome to comply” – Ah, kinda like when people asked Hillary Lynn Hayward-Thomas how much time she actually spent in what she called “the motherland” and she replied, “I think it would be maddening to do such a tight timeline of everything. You know, sometimes there was school involved. Sometimes it was vacation. It was such a mix, mishmash, is that the right word? Like a mix of different things.” Burdensome, Hilz. We get it.
  • the footage’s value would be destroyed if they released it. At least this point is honest – it’s all about the $$$
• Hillary decided to break her tradition of starting the month with a dose of crazy and eased into May on the 9^th with the first of 5 posts for the month: a story of her two youngest girls captioned “sisters.” Suuuuuuuuper coincidentally, y’all, this is the day Hailey and Justin Bieber announced that they are having a baby. Like, what are the odds, right? Also, StepTía Hilly did not like Hailey’s post (but 11M others did).

A pepino prayer: Lord, keep the nannies safe and sane. Amen.

• Over on his scintillating IG account, Alec posted the news that he will be co-directing a production of Macbeth with Geoffrey Horne for Shakespeare Downtown this summer. Good thing this will be in June, because there might be a bit of a scheduling conflict for Alec in July.
  
• Alec posted two pictures of Edu: one totally scrunched in a too-small stroller and one making the patented Baldwin duck lips. Against all logic, the pic of the kid perched on a tiny stroller became the picture Alec chose as his new profile pic.
  
• On Mother’s Day, Alec dug deep, looked back on his grid, landed on this picture he first posted in December 2023 and said, “this is the one!” It features Alec, his wife, one of their 7 kids, two very hungry caterpillars, and stars the ubiquitous Madman Espresso single use coffee cup. ¡Feliz día de la madre, Híláríá!
  

Low effort personified.

• Speaking of madres, Dr. Kathryn Hayward is selling her life/relationship coaching shenanigans hard on YouTube and the mother of the child actor featured in Rust is thirsty AF. She posted a video of Alec and her son, Alec reposted the video - a lovefest. Good parenting vibes all around!

Obsessed with the one and only comment this video garnered: “what’s the stethoscope for?”

• Hannah Gutierrez Reed appealed her conviction as Alec was out on the town, glad-handing away with no Guest Baldwin in sight.

Oh Daniel, where to begin?

• To add to his long list of RIP posts, Alec paid tribute to Dick Summer (radio personality). Comment highlight 1: “I wish everyone would stop dying. It’s getting me down.” Comment highlight 2: “Did you shoot him, Alec?”
• Despite the “would you follow my wife on IG to get to 1M followers” campaign of just four months ago, Hilz is now at 989K followers while this sub is at 53K.

\"To be honest\" is not a phrase typically associated with Grifty McGrifter.

• The day a judge heard the motion to throw out Alec’s indictment was also Romeo's birthday so Hillary posted a story (#2 of 5 posts) of her, Alec, and the birthday boy as well as a grid video collage set to John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy” (#3 of 5 posts) – a solid choice, nothing bad to say here. Alec, on the other hand, did not make a happy birthday post but found time to repost a “Crush the Can” fundraising campaign video from the Baldwin Fund. These videos are not good, if only they had connections to folks the filmmaking industry…

Bye, Wig!

• A public service announcement for the Reddit Cares brigade: not posting about a kid’s birthday on IG or not liking a family member’s IG post is not usually an issue. I am well aware that countless people live offline and exchange private messages; however, we are gathered here today and most days to talk about Alec and “Hilaria” Baldwin. They use social media, and IG in particular to cultivate a brand/façade/public persona. Given that, liking/not liking or posting/not posting is of note. This concludes our announcement.
• Listen, at this point in the game, I am HERE for Said the Pap. I am just going to lean into the theory that he’s an agent of chaos and a savvy social critic because this picture is a true gift to this sub. Live long and prosper, amigo.

Tiny. Baby. Sewer. Slippers. And is she holding a phone?? Call for help, sweet pea.

• On the day of Holland's first birthday, StepAbuela Hilly posted a “candid” shot of her and her three oldest boys, skipping through NYC in a light rain (post #4 of 5). When I tell you I cranked up the Gypsy Kings, poured a sangria, and flamenco flurried my way over to the comments – and was delighted:
  • u/FamousOhioAppleHorn: When I see a woman dressed like that in FL, I know she's gonna buy 5 Hour Energy, cigs and scratch off tickets while telling everyone her entire life story.
  • u/NightOwlsUnite: Subway...in fucking slippers. She's a walking germ factory. If and when the next pandemic hits, thank her.
  • u/smallpepino: Typhoid Larry.
  • u/Sun_will_rise_again: Those slippers are going to walk themselves to the trash…. They’re DONE, they’ve been through enough 🚮 Also this looks like something Britney Spears would write…. Just a jumble of random shit.
  • u/ ca17miledrive: There she is again. The Dope of Greenwich Village.
  • u/MallorcanMalarkey: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the insane.

So many pockets, so little sense.

• Since Hilly is being so shy about showing her face. It’s a good thing the trusty folks at the Daily Mail have no such qualms. Alec and Guest Baldwin attended the 25^th anniversary of a pretentious restaurant that gleefully reposted a picture of the duo calling them “amazing stars.” Restaurant Sirs, you have been bamboozled.

Maybe she should have kept the sweatshirt from the other day on her head?
MichWho was also there- if only Hillary's mallet could tap some life into the frozen tundra of Mich's mask/face.

• Also, is this iteration of Hillary’s face giving Danielle Staub and/or Countess LuAnn vibes, or no?

Does one just ask for the squinty and taut special?

• On May 23rd, Alec met up with Ireland, her partner and her baby in Chicago and she posted pictures of their visit to the Museum of Ice Cream (I mistakenly thought they were at the MoIC in NYC, my bad). Alec reposted the pictures along with another “Crush the Can” campaign video from the Baldwin Fund.

\"PeePaw\" just about took me out.

• The next day a New Mexico judicial district judge denied the motion to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter case. This means that Alec must stand trial in July; sometimes the judicial system works in the interest of fairness. If nothing else, it is gratifying to know that he is spending through the nose to mount this legal defense.
• With her usual ham-fisted timing, Hilz got to work and posted a grid video of Alec showing his phone to Ilaria Sin Hache (props to u/Longjumping-Stage647 for the moniker). It’s cute – who doesn’t love a baby in a onesie trying to talk and toddling around? Hilz for damn sure knows the value of her “vending machine of joy” and captioned her video: “I want dada, I want dada”….shes talking more and more. This is her first sentence 🤍. They love watching puppies together. The sweet things we are grateful for…that laughter. It calms the heart ⛅️”

23,791 of Hillary’s 989K followers liked this video.

• Hilz responded to some comments and then a few zingers found their mark:
  • Commenter 1: Daddy’s little girl 💕💜💕💜
  • Hillary: “def…I was a little jealous…all our other 6 said mama first, but this one said dada 😂. All kidding aside…it’s such a beautiful relationship. Gives him life and strength ❤️”
  • Commenter 2: Such a sweet little one. I miss your updates. Come back ❤️
  • Hillary: I will…I promise 💚
  • Commenter 3: This is a cute sitcom. Far from reality as many things on social media. But cute and happy, and that is what we want to see. Not the maids, fights, and tantrums
  • Commenter 4: Awe so cute! Grandparents are the best!!!
• May 26^th was the two-year anniversary of Carol Baldwin’s passing and Alec posted a picture of the two of them captioned (verbatim): “two years ago today Your work continuesWe all miss you”

Alec was more effusive in his RIP post about Sam Rubin, an LA entertainment reporter who passed, than about Carol.

• I offer you Billy Baldwin’s caption for the picture of himself and his mother the same day:
  • My Mom: Honey... HOOOOONNEEEEYY!!!
  • Me: Yeah Mom!!!
  • My Mom: Do me a favor??
  • Me: Sure Mom.
  • My Mom: Go grab me the... the... the whatchamacallit?
  • Me: The what?
  • My Mom: You know... the thingamajig that has that little doohickey on the side. It's in the kitchen junk drawer next to the whooziwhats!!!
  • This never meant the same thing twice but every time she said it... I knew exactly what she wanted. Gone two years today. Smart, funny, tough, wacky, wild... and a heart of gold. Miss you dearest Mama!!! ♥️
• Maybe Alec couldn’t focus on a more heartfelt tribute to his mother because was distracted by his wife’s unusual move of taking an Uber – quite normal for many but for Hillary My Ancestors Arrived on the Mayflower Hayward- Thomas, it’s usually a private car double parked for maximum chaos or sewer slippers slapping against the grime of NYC sidewalks, so this middle ground must have been confusing for PeePaw.

Your body is nice, Hillary. You don't need the alien appendages on the right or the multiple bras at once on the left.

• Alec’s defense team added 9 new witnesses on the last day they were permitted to do so (5/6/24) and did not provide witness statements. Prosecutors argued that this was done in bad faith and that “the State has now been prejudiced by the defendant's strategy to gain a tactical advantage as the State is unable to file pretrial motions as it relates to the new witnesses, is unable to properly investigate the statements of the witnesses and list its own new witnesses to refute the testimony of the belatedly disclosed witnesses.” So on 5/31, the prosecutors moved to exclude the witnesses from the trial. Stay tuned…
• As this legal mess was going down, Alec and Hillary made their signature move: a staged pap walk in NYC wearing ill-fitting clothes, clutching phones and Madman Espresso products. How the mightily mediocre have fallen…

The unfiltered images must be...something else.

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Enter the Mega-Man

May 31, 2024 —
In a memoir published in December, the professional mountaineer and former Miss Finland Lotta Hintsa briefly described an upsetting incident with a “very famous male climber” whom she didn’t name.
During a March 2023 business discussion in the man’s hotel suite in Kathmandu, Nepal, he “kissed Lotta completely without warning,” Ms. Hintsa and her co-author wrote in the Finnish-language book, “The Mountains of My Life 2.” “The situation was absurd, unreal and unpleasant.”
But in interviews with The New York Times, Ms. Hintsa said her experience was more disturbing than she had described in the book. And her story highlights a concern that women in the climbing world are starting to talk about more openly.
Ms. Hintsa said the man was Nirmal Purja, whose successful 2019 quest to climb all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in record time was chronicled in a popular Netflix documentary. She said he led her to the bedroom, pulled off her shirt, trekking shorts and underwear and tried to remove her bra. She said she repeatedly told him no and offered excuses to get him to stop without agitating him. The episode ended with him masturbating next to her, she said.
“I just need to get out of this and pretend that it never happened,” Ms. Hintsa, 35, recalled thinking at the time.
Through his lawyer, Mr. Purja declined requests for an interview. The lawyer, Philip M. Kelly, said in a written statement that Mr. Purja “unequivocally denies the allegations of wrongdoing. These allegations are false and defamatory.”
As high-altitude mountaineering has gained popularity, women have become increasingly visible and formidable in a sport still largely dominated by men. Statistics from Mount Everest speak to the trend: Last year, 65 women reached the summit — about 10 percent of the climbers who summited — up from 45 in 2013 and just 10 in 2003, according to the Himalayan Database.
But in recent years, members of the broader climbing community have acknowledged that the sport comes with unseen risks, especially for women. More and more women in the sport, which includes everything from indoor rock climbing to ascending snowy peaks, are coming forward to talk about moments they’ve described as unsettling or worse.
In 2019, a group of professional female rock climbers started an Instagram account “about the ridiculous and inappropriate messages, photos, and solicitations we receive in our DMs,” one of the women said in a social media post. The account, whose creators said it was later shut down by Instagram, shared screenshots of harassing messages sent to women in the sport.
In February, a 39-year-old climber named Charles Barrett was convicted of three counts of sexual abuse for repeatedly assaulting a woman who was visiting Yosemite National Park for a weekend hiking trip in 2016. The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California said in a statement that Mr. Barrett had “used his renown and physical presence as a rock climber to lure and intimidate victims who were part of the rock-climbing community.”
And in interviews with The Times, Ms. Hintsa and another woman, a former client of Mr. Purja’s high-altitude guiding company, described experiences in recent years in which he kissed them without consent, made aggressive advances or touched them sexually against their wishes. They said they felt powerless and wary of angering Mr. Purja.
“I didn’t know what to do,” recalled Dr. April Leonardo, a family physician from Quincy, Calif. She said Mr. Purja repeatedly grabbed, kissed and propositioned her during an expedition to K2, the world’s second-tallest mountain. “I’m on this crazy climb. He’s my guide. I don’t want to do anything to put myself in jeopardy.” The statement from Mr. Purja’s lawyer also unequivocally denied Dr. Leonardo’s allegations.
Soon after the encounters the women described having with Mr. Purja, they shared their stories with friends and relatives and sent them text messages about their experiences. The Times reviewed the text messages and confirmed the conversations with the other people.
The outdoor recreation world has started to address sexual abuse and harassment, though haltingly. In response to the #MeToo movement, members of the United States climbing community created an initiative in 2018 called #SafeOutside to study the scope of the problem in the sport. The organizers surveyed more than 5,000 climbers from over 60 countries and found that 47 percent of women and 16 percent of men said they had been subjected to unwanted sexual behavior while climbing. And a few months ago, The Mountaineers, an outdoor recreation group in the Pacific Northwest, created a sexual harassment and assault prevention advisory committee to address the risk among its 15,000 members.
But it’s nothing new for women to feel mistreated in the sport.
“It’s the most vulnerable position I can imagine being in,” said Alison Levine, the captain of the first American women’s Everest expedition in 2002, who said she experienced verbal abuse and threatening behavior from a guide during that trip. The climbers turned back short of the summit as weather conditions deteriorated.
Ms. Levine continued, “The thing that was most challenging, the scariest, and produced the most anxiety and fear on that mountain came from a human, not the environment.” She didn’t return to the big mountains for another five years, then went back to Everest in 2010 and reached the summit.
“There is so much inherent risk in the environment itself,” she said. “When you add in risk from interpersonal relationships, that makes it even more frightening.”
This month, hundreds of climbers scaled Everest and other Himalayan peaks. Above 8,000 meters (about 26,000 feet), they enter what is known as the Death Zone, where there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life for long and they expose themselves to hazards like frostbite, icefall, crevasses and high-altitude pulmonary or cerebral edema. Eighteen climbers died on Everest during the spring 2023 season, and this year five have died and three have been reported missing.
Clients pay tens of thousands of dollars to attempt these ascents — Everest expeditions start at around $40,000 and can cost six figures for a more luxurious experience — and entrust their guides with their lives.
Mr. Purja, 40, is one of mountaineering’s most recognizable and influential figures, with more than two million followers on Instagram. Known as Nims, he’s a naturalized citizen of Britain, where he lives with his wife and young daughter. But in his native Nepal he is revered as the kind of climbing superstar the country hasn’t seen since Tenzing Norgay completed the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 alongside Sir Edmund Hillary.
Through his guiding company, Elite Exped, Mr. Purja has helped usher in a new era of commercial climbing on the world’s tallest peaks and has encouraged women on social media to take part.
He has guided high-profile female clients like Asma Al Thani, a member of the Qatari royal family, and the Russian model Victoria Bonya. “Thanks for inspiring me to push my limits. I’m grateful for everything you taught me,” a Swiss climber named Christine Vogondy posted on social media last fall, with a photo of her and Mr. Purja atop Gasherbrum I in Pakistan.
Ms. Hintsa, who became a professional climber in 2018, crossed paths with Mr. Purja at base camps in Nepal and Pakistan while on the climbing circuit. They corresponded intermittently about expeditions they were taking, and Mr. Purja invited her to guide for his company.
Mr. Purja was often flirtatious in those text messages and in exchanges with Dr. Leonardo, according to a review of the messages by The Times. The women sometimes bantered back, and Ms. Hintsa, a former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, once sent a photo of herself from the magazine. Often, though, the women changed the subject or didn’t respond.
Ms. Hintsa and Mr. Purja agreed to meet in Kathmandu in March 2023 to discuss working together on an expedition Ms. Hintsa was organizing. Mr. Purja suggested having coffee in his hotel suite to avoid the attention he would get in the lobby, Ms. Hintsa recalled.
Given the tenor of some of their earlier text messages, Ms. Hintsa said, she sought to draw clear boundaries. She said she texted Mr. Purja on WhatsApp that this was “not a booty call,” and that he replied agreeing that it was not. Ms. Hintsa no longer has this text exchange because Mr. Purja’s app was set to make messages in their chat disappear after seven days.
In Mr. Purja’s suite at the Marriott on March 30, Ms. Hintsa recalled, she was “frozen” and “confused” as he led her to the bed. She said she felt like she was having an out-of-body experience as he removed her clothes even as she continued to say no. She told him she had her period, she said, but he didn’t stop. At one point he touched her vagina, she said.
“I can’t get through to him. He’s in this extremely aroused state where a ‘No’ means nothing,” Ms. Hintsa recalled. She said she was afraid to agitate him because of his strength and the training he’d received in Britain’s military, including its special forces.
She said that Mr. Purja appeared to grow frustrated as she continued to refuse him and that he seemed to lose interest after she physically resisted his removing her bra. She described feeling relieved when he began to masturbate, hopeful that the episode would soon be over.
Mr. Purja then showered, she said, which gave her time to compose herself and get dressed. They left the room and he showed her the store he operates at the Marriott, then asked a driver to take her to her hotel, she said. Mr. Purja behaved as if nothing had happened, she said. That day, Ms. Hintsa texted a friend describing her experience. The Times reviewed the message. Later, she recounted it in person to the friend, Heidi Paananen, who confirmed their conversation.
A driver for Mr. Purja, Krishna Bahadur Tamang, said in a written statement provided by Mr. Purja’s lawyer that he took Mr. Purja to the Marriott that morning. He said Mr. Purja returned to the car “within 20 minutes.” Ms. Hintsa recalled being at the hotel with Mr. Purja for close to an hour, and she provided time-stamped photos she took that day on her way to meet Mr. Purja and at his store. They corroborated her timeline.
Ms. Hintsa did not end up doing business with Mr. Purja’s company.
Outdoor sports have unique risk factors for sexual harassment and misconduct, said Gina McClard, an Oregon lawyer specializing in gender-based violence prevention. In 2019, she co-founded a consultancy called Respect Outside that works with outdoor recreation groups such as mountaineering clubs and guide services on policies, procedures and trainings to prevent sexual harassment and discrimination.
These activities can entail weekslong expeditions to remote settings, where participants live and sleep in close quarters. The culture surrounding outdoor sports, which celebrates pushing boundaries and glorifies people who pull off rare feats, may also create situations where inappropriate behavior goes unchecked, she said.
“Much of the outdoor industry is still an ‘old boys’ network,” Ms. McClard said in an email. “If you do not conform to how things are done, you may find yourself marginalized and iced out of the club.”
Mr. Barrett, the climber who was convicted of sexual abuse this year, is set to be sentenced on Tuesday. He was prosecuted in part because of the 2018 #SafeOutside survey, according to court filings earlier reported by Outside Magazine. The woman he assaulted answered the survey saying she had been raped by a “well-known, professional California climber” on a trip to Yosemite. Another respondent said she had been sexually assaulted by the houseguest of a professional climber she was visiting. Survey organizers followed up with the women and connected them after they both identified Mr. Barrett as the person who had assaulted them. The Yosemite hiker reported Mr. Barrett to the authorities in 2020.
Mr. Barrett’s was a familiar name in California rock climbing. He wrote guidebooks on bouldering in popular areas like Mammoth and Bishop, and he ascended difficult routes with the famous American rock climber Alex Honnold. A 2016 profile in Climbing Magazine, later taken down from the website, described Mr. Barrett as “a master of the California climbing game.”
He was living and working in Yosemite at the time of the assault of the female hiker. Mr. Barrett “violently raped” her after inviting her into the woods to watch a meteor shower, prosecutors said, and also assaulted her during a hike and in the employee housing area. Three other women, including the other survey respondent, testified at his trial that he had sexually assaulted them. Those incidents happened outside federal jurisdiction, and state prosecutors did not bring charges.
Based on her work with groups throughout the outdoor industry, Ms. McClard said that company policies rarely extend beyond physical safety to include psychological or emotional safety of clients and employees. Most smaller outdoor companies don’t have in-house human resources departments, she said, and bigger players in the industry have not invested the time or money that she believes this issue requires.
“There’s no industrywide movement,” she said. “I feel like we are alone in what we’re doing on sexual harassment in the outdoor industry.”
Dr. Leonardo, 41, the California physician, met Mr. Purja at a teahouse in Nepal in 2021 before she summited Mount Everest with a different company. She later learned that he was organizing a guided ascent of K2 the following summer. Drawn in part by the danger of the climb, she signed up, paying $55,000 for the two-month trip, which began in June 2022.
After arriving at K2 base camp, at about 17,000 feet, the team held a puja, a ceremony to pay respect to the mountain and ask for safe passage. She recalled that during the celebration afterward, she was looking for a trash bag and ran into Mr. Purja, who took her to a storage tent to get one. As she turned to leave, she said, Mr. Purja grabbed her arm, pulled her close and kissed her. She recalled Mr. Purja then saying, “I will have you.” Stunned and unsure of what to do, she said, she walked out.
“I just feel like I need to avoid him and keep anything from happening, but I’m afraid to do or say anything about it,” Dr. Leonardo recalled thinking. Another climber on the mountain at the time said Dr. Leonardo told him during her trip that she and Mr. Purja had had this interaction and that she did not want to be alone with him. The person asked not to be named for fear of professional or personal repercussions.
On another occasion, Dr. Leonardo said, Mr. Purja showed up uninvited at her tent. She was in her sleeping bag, wearing a shirt and underwear, she recalled, and he crouched next to her and said he wanted to check on her knee, which she had injured. Mr. Purja reached inside her sleeping bag, which made her feel panicked, she said, so she quickly pulled her leg out. He kissed her, she said, and grabbed her hand and placed it on his crotch, forcing her to feel his erect penis through his pants. She said she felt trapped in her sleeping bag, unable to leave because she wasn’t dressed.
According to Dr. Leonardo, Mr. Purja told her he wanted to have sex with her but had to wait until no one was around, and then left.
Another time, she said, Mr. Purja grabbed her arm while she was walking alone through camp and asked, “When can I mount you?” He suggested they go to her tent, she said, but she made excuses.
Dr. Leonardo sent her father, Leon Leonardo, a text during her trip saying that Mr. Purja kept trying to have sex with her. “Not ok,” she wrote in the message, which was reviewed by The Times.
Two employees of Elite Exped on Dr. Leonardo’s K2 expedition, Chandra Bahadur Tamang, the head chef, and Ramesh Gurung, a senior guide, said in statements provided by Mr. Purja’s lawyer that they provided security for the storage tent because it contained valuable items and that Mr. Purja never went inside it during the expedition. Dr. Leonardo said people were often around the tent but no one was there when she and Mr. Purja briefly went inside.
Another senior guide, Pasang Tendi Sherpa, said in a statement that Mr. Purja “was not in any private setting” with Dr. Leonardo during the trip. Pasang Tendi Sherpa’s statement did not explain how he knew that and he did not respond to interview requests. Mr. Gurung did not agree to an interview. The Times could not reach Chandra Bahadur Tamang.
For several months after the trip, Dr. Leonardo had cordial text exchanges with Mr. Purja, partly because she was waiting for reimbursement for some lost gear, she said. She didn’t see him again.
The women who spoke to The Times about Mr. Purja said that they didn’t know what recourse they had. Elite Exped is a small company run by Mr. Purja, and because the incidents happened outside their home countries, the women weren’t sure what to do. They did not alert law enforcement or other authorities.
Ms. Hintsa said she was telling her story in hopes of making the male-dominated sport of mountaineering safer for women. Only with time has she come to understand the effects of her experience.
“I hadn’t realized the scars that it had left,” she said. “It has made me realize that it’s not only the rock fall or the avalanches that are dangerous for a female climber.”
Mr. Purja’s star has continued to rise. As a face of high-altitude climbing, he has worked with major companies like Red Bull and Nike, which this past winter released a clothing collection inspired by Mr. Purja, called 8K Peaks, and featured him in a towering Manhattan billboard. In December he received an honorary doctorate from Loughborough University in England. Outdoor brands including Grivel, Osprey and Scarpa have worked with him on co-branded products.
Dr. Leonardo’s achievement of summiting K2, she said, was tainted by what she experienced. She hopes that sharing her account will help other women avoid a similar scenario.
“I can’t let it keep happening,” Dr. Leonardo said, adding: “I don’t want another woman to have to go through this.”

The intriguing intersection of ancient history, astronomy, and engineering has long captivated scholars and enthusiasts alike. One of the focal points of this discussion is Ptolemy's "Almagest," an astronomical treatise from the second century A.D. that cataloged 1,028 observable stars with remarkable precision. The work's accuracy, along with other historical artifacts and structures like the Egyptian zodiacs and pyramids, raises questions about the technological capabilities and chronological dating of ancient civilizations.
Ptolemy's Almagest: Precision and Plausibility
Ptolemy's "Almagest" is renowned for its precise measurements of star positions, with an accuracy within 10 to 15 arc minutes. Considering the Earth's rotation causes the night sky to shift by one arc degree every four minutes, this level of precision suggests a sophisticated understanding of timekeeping. However, the available instruments in the second century A.D.—sundials, clepsydras (water clocks), and sand hourglasses—lacked the accuracy to measure time to the minute. This discrepancy has led some to question whether Ptolemy had access to more advanced tools or if the data was compiled much later than traditionally believed.
Revisiting Egyptian Chronology
Dr. Anatoly Fomenko and his team propose a radical re-dating of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including horoscopes from tombs in the Valley of the Kings and the temples of Dendera and Esna. By decoding these horoscopes, Fomenko asserts that the dates correspond to the medieval period, around the 11th century A.D., rather than the traditionally accepted ancient timeline. This re-dating challenges the established chronology of ancient Egypt, suggesting that what we consider "ancient" may be significantly more recent.
Pyramids: Concrete Evidence?
The construction of the Egyptian pyramids, particularly the Great Pyramid of Cheops, has been a subject of fascination and speculation. Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian, described a method involving the use of short wooden beams to raise stones, which has been interpreted by some as a description of wooden formwork for casting concrete blocks. This interpretation posits that the ancient Egyptians might have used a form of concrete rather than quarried stone.
The Egyptian Zodiacs
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Several observations support this hypothesis:

1. Layering Patterns: The blocks exhibit layering that contrasts with natural limestone, suggesting they were cast rather than carved.
2. Mesh Patterns: Some blocks have a distinct mesh pattern on their surfaces, possibly from mats used inside the formwork, indicating they were poured in place.
3. Block Softness: The blocks' relative softness and erosion patterns are consistent with concrete rather than solid stone.
4. Precision Fitting: The extremely tight fitting of blocks, with minimal gaps, would be more feasible if the blocks were cast in place, allowing them to form perfectly against each other.

Furthermore, the subsidiary pyramid south of Menkaure's pyramid shows a cavity with a hard outer crust and a softer internal composition, typical of concrete construction.
Implications and Challenges
If the hypothesis of concrete pyramid construction and the medieval dating of Egyptian artifacts hold true, it would necessitate a significant revision of our understanding of ancient history. The precision of Ptolemy's astronomical measurements might indicate either anachronistic technology or a later compilation of data. Similarly, re-dating Egyptian artifacts to the medieval period would challenge the conventional timeline and the technological capabilities attributed to these civilizations.
However, these theories are contentious and require robust evidence to gain acceptance. The mainstream academic community remains skeptical, favoring traditional explanations based on extensive archaeological and historical research. The challenge remains to prove these alternative theories consistently and in sufficient detail to overturn long-held beliefs.

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