Owls have fascinated me since childhood, especially after reading and watching the Harry Potter series. Recently, I joined an Owls of the Okanagan expedition with a group of professional bird watchers. It was a fully guided tour along the beautiful Mission Creek trail. I took a bus to the trail and waited at the meeting point for the host and other participants to arrive. Once our host, Kaelin, and the rest of the group gathered, he asked everyone to introduce themselves and

On May 29, 1953, at 11:30 a.m., Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first confirmed climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain (about 29,035 feet), during a British expedition after a harsh night at extreme altitude. News spread worldwide on the coronation day of Queen Elizabeth II. Located in the Great Himalayas on the border of Nepal and Tibet, the mountain locally called Chomo-Lungma(“Mother Goddess of the Land”) and also named aft