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Sherpa Jamling Tenzing Norgay was Climbing Leader for the 1996 Everest IMAX Filming Expedition and summitted the Mountain that year.

Her critically acclaimed 1989 debut album All Hail The Queen is considered one of the best rap albums of all time, and she has starred in many movies. (This interview originally aired March 15, 1999.)

Al Jazeera airs a video, dated Jan. 21, of four Western peace activists who were kidnapped in Iraq in November. With the tape comes a threat to kill the four if all Iraqi prisoners are not freed.

Alan Cheuse reviews SOAR by John Weisman. SOAR stands for Special Operations Air Regiment, part of the U.S. Army's Delta Force. The book takes readers to China, inside the CIA and among Islamic guerillas.

This summer, All Things Considered is airing portions of stump speeches from the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. On Monday's show we hear an excerpt of a speech from Sen. Bob Graham of Florida.

This summer, All Things Considered is airing portions of stump speeches from the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. Tuesday we hear an excerpt of a speech from former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun.

Continuing NPR's series on Latin American cities, NPR's Martin Kaste samples the air in Santiago, Chile. He finds it muddied due to excessive pollution, growing capitalism, and post-revolutionary politics.

Radio Islam, the nation's first daily English-language Muslim radio program produced in the United States, began airing this month in Chicago. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.

A 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard has been arrested in connection with the recent trove of leaked Pentagon documents.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports that while the average weekday in Los Angeles brings traffic jams throughout the city and region, the air pollution is at its worst during the weekend. Scientists say the reasons for this are as hazy as the LA skyline.