Mountain climber to speak at Dole Institute

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Robert Link has scaled the world’s tallest peaks, gasping the thin air through some of the worst conditions on the planet. Tonight he’ll be speaking at the Dole Institute of Politics at 7:30 p.m..

The lecture is a part of the Institute’s “Leadership and Globalization in Sports” series that began last year with a visit from Paul Tagliabue, former commissioner of the NFL.

Bill Lacy, Director of the Dole Institute, went on a climb led by Link in Mexico nine years ago. He said mountain climbing had an interesting place in the world.

“The highest mountains in the world are in developing nations,” Lacy said, “We’ll be talking about the impact of mountaineering in places like Nepal and Tibet.”

One of the Himalayan climbs was up Mt. Everest in 1990 with climbers from Russia and China as a part of an International Peace Climb.

This is the second lecture in the series, which the Institute plans to continue annually.

Lacy said the Institute started the series because sports have an ability to transcend politics.

“We have disagreements with various nations over many things,” Lacy said, “But nations always get together for the Olympics. Sports are kind of a common denominator.”

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