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This dispatch was received on the afternoon of August 5. Below, Trey Cooks friend, David Schipper, relays information from Cook and Fredrik Ericssons skiing expedition on K2.Today at about 2PM Moab UT time and 10 PM French time replica breitling Navitimer Moonphase Chronograph watches the remaining 9 climbers at camp 4 plan to begin their move across the shoulder, through the bottleneck and traverse and then ultimately the summit. Ralf spent some of his day vomiting on the route toward 4 yesterday and felt it best to descend. Gerlinde, Fabrizio, Kinga, Trey and Fredrik are moving toward the summit. Guess where I am!! was my crystal clear greeting from the 88.... number on my cell phone this morning. They had made it to camp 4 after 11 hours of dicey climbing over the 45 degree-is

After a week of riding subways and tuk tuks to open-air craft markets where we saw nothing, we got smart and started shopping in the dozens of swanky hotels rising from the city’s smog. Our biggest find (no, we didn’t buy any) was a $5,000 replica Audemars Piguet watch carved tusk hidden beneath the display window of an English-speaking gift shop. Beautiful and grim ivory art is the centerpiece issue at this week’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, meeting in Doha, Qatar. The organization will discuss 40-some proposals that help govern the trade of endangered species. Likely, the most controversial of these is from Tanzania and Zambia.

Lance Armstrong (Team RadioShack) and AlbertoContador (Team Astana) will compete in the 2010 CriteriumInternational, their first race together since the Tour de France lastyear, states roadcycling.com. On Tuesday, Contador—the defending Tour deFrance champion—announced he had changedhis plans and will compete in the March 27-28 Longines replica watches race in Corsica insteadof events in Catalonia and the Basque country. He won the Paris-Nice event on Sunday. At Astana last season, Contador and Armstrong were uneasy teammates. Armstrong finished third in the Tour de France, hisfirst since winning seven straight from 1999 to 2005. He left theAstana team and now races for Team RadioShack.Check out King of Pain, our profile on Armstrong from the February 2009 issue.--Stayton Bonner