Climbing Mt. Everest Might Be a Thing of the Past: Here’s What We’re Reading Today
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Is this the end of Mt. Everest?
“After two years of unimaginable tragedy, everyone from outfitters and Sherpas to would-be climbers and the Nepalese government is questioning the future of commercial mountaineering.”
2. Canadian bank fined for money laundering
The fine of $1.1 million is the first of its kind of a Canadian bank. And while the bank in question remains unknown, the announcement comes just days after RBC was named in the massive Panama Papers leak for its involvement with off-shore shell corporations, key components of any money laundering schemes.
+1: Relatives of at least three of the seven members of China’s Politburo, the country’s most powerful ruling committee, were named in the Panama Papers leak.
+1: A partner at Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of all this controversy, says it was the victim of a hack and not an insider whistleblower.
3. The world has a graveyard problem
“Half a billion people are going to die in the next decade — and we can’t keep cramming their caskets into the Earth.” Traditional burials are polluting the planet, but what are we going to do when we all die?
4. Have you watched a Facebook Live video yet?
Why the company is betting big and going all in on live video.
5. The unbearable whiteness of baseball
“The source of baseball’s diminished hold on our imaginations runs much deeper than social-media strategy. The problem lies in the demographics of baseball’s rosters, and the shameful way in which the majority of its media has failed to pay anything approaching adequate attention to the Latino players who have entered the game over the last two decades.”
