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☆ China reopens Mount Everest access to foreigners
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Lilit Marcus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —For the first time since the pandemic, China is allowing foreign climbers to access Mount Everest via Tibet. Rather than a tourism official or council in Beijing, all passes to use the Chinese route up the mountain, which is known in China as Qomolangma, are distributed by the China Tibet Mountaineering Association (CTMA). There is also no official announcement released by the Chinese government notifying the public that passes will be given out. Foreigners who obtain tourist visas to China must get an additional, separate visa for Tibet, which is a semi-autonomous region. Ballinger’s team will arrive in China on April 25 after pre-acclimatizing at home to save time.

Persons: Adrian Ballinger, Ballinger, Ballinger’s, ” Organizations: CNN, Alpenglow Expeditions, China Tibet Mountaineering Association, Everest Base, Foreigners Locations: China, Everest, Tibet, Nepal, Beijing, Lhasa

☆ How taking a break can help save an influencer's dying career, even when it seems like there's no hope
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementLast year, Gabbie Hanna took an extended break from the internet, with some thinking she would never come back. The shift in perception is not guaranteed by stepping away, but it does help, experts say. Advertisement"The public tends to be more forgiving of celebrities and influencers who come back and show genuine change," Varbanova said. How getting 'canceled' has changedHanna, like many influencers, has been "canceled" multiple times over her career.

Persons: Gabbie Hanna, influencers, —, Hanna, David Dobrik's Vlog, Toni Ferrara, Varbanova, It's, Colleen Ballinger —, earthness, Sophie Wood, it's, Wood, Gen Zers Organizations: Service, YouTube, Ferrera Media, Business

☆ Affiliate marketing is becoming a PR nightmare for some brands as it strips their control over who promotes a product
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"Sweet Loren's is not in any way affiliated with or working with Colleen previously, now, or in the future. We also did not pay any commission for sales through the attached affiliate link." An affiliate link is a custom link generated by an affiliate marketing platform that lets the influencer earn a small commission from every product or service sold using the link. Sweet Loren's could presumably appeal to Walmart or YouTube to remove Ballinger from their affiliate program. But when an influencer organically promotes a product or service and links to an affiliate link, the brand typically has no involvement, as most brands work with a third-party affiliate network.

Persons: YouTuber Colleen Ballinger, Ballinger, Miranda Sings, cohost Trisha Paytas, she's, Ballinger hasn't, it's, Loren's, TikTok, commenter, hadn't, Sweet Loren's, Colleen, Sweet, There's, Conor Begley Organizations: Business, YouTube, Walmart

☆ Chaos at OpenAI ensues
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

In today's big story, we're looking at the continued fallout from the shocking Sam Altman ouster at OpenAI. Altman is alive and well, but his run as CEO of OpenAI ended abruptly on Friday. But in the days since his firing, he's escaped a messy weekend looking like the ultimate hero, Business Insider's Katie Notopoulos writes. To be fair, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear don't seem to know why either. Meanwhile, Salesforce's Marc Benioff is already actively recruiting OpenAI employees on X.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Altman, OpenAI, he's, Katie Notopoulos, Altman isn't, Ilya Sutskever —, Sutskever, Kali Hays, Satya Nadella, Emmett Shear, Satya Nadella Stephen Brashear, Julie Bort, Microsoft's Nadella, Nadella, that's, Madeline Renbarger, That's, It's, Kali, Ashley Stewart, Salesforce's Marc Benioff, Scott Olson, Bridgewater's, Greg Jensen, Jim Chanos, Elon, New York Jefferson Siegel, Nvidia's, Jensen Huang, execs, Elon Musk, Linda Yaccarino, Arantza Pena Popo, Camila Téllez, Melkorka, Téllez, Carly Rae Jepsen, Björk, Colleen Ballinger, Clinton, Dan DeFrancesco, Naga Siu, Hallam Bullock, Lisa Ryan Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Getty, BlackRock, Reuters, Nvidia, Elon, HP, Nordstrom, Clinton Lee Locations: OpenAI, Silicon Valley, Bridgewater, New York, Texas, Millennials, New York City, San Diego, London

☆ It’s been one year since the Ethereum merge. Here’s how the network is doing on its goals.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Despite ether's recent price action, the network has been thriving since the "merge" – and could just be getting started. Still, market participants are seeing and feeling the success of the Ethereum merge. Here's how Ethereum is doing on some of its post-merge goals: Yields Ether's staking reward reference rate was 5.854% per annum on Sept. 15, 2022, according to Ethereum data provider Beaconchain. The percentage of ether supply being staked has risen from 11.99% on Sept. 15, 2022, to 20.46% on Aug. 30 of this year. Burning fees and decreasing supply Ethereum has a mechanism programmed in to regulate the network's notoriously high transaction fees, called gas fees, by "burning" them.

Persons: Ethereum, it's, Ethereum haven't, Matthew Sigel, Andrew Ballinger, hadn't, Maria Shen, Shen, It's Organizations: Metrics, First, ETH, Electric Locations: Bitcoin, FTX, First Republic, Shanghai, ETH, Solana, Cardano

☆ UK climber Kenton Cool sets record for most Mount Everest summits by a non-Nepali
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Lilit Marcus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Kathmandu CNN —British mountaineer Kenton Cool has set a record for the most Mount Everest summits by a non-Nepali after reaching the top of the world’s highest mountain for the 17th time. According to a post on Cool’s Instagram account, the trio reached the top of Everest at 1:30 am British Summer Time, which is 6:15 am Nepal time. On Monday, 46-year-old Pasang Dawa Sherpa reached the mountain’s apex for the 26th time, tying his countryman Kami Rita Sherpa for the number of all-time ascents. “Unfortunately, when accidents do happen on the mountain, more often than not the tragedy tends to strike the Nepalese workers who are there supporting foreign climbers,” Ballinger told CNN. All we can do is fight and advocate for the increased regulation of the mountaineering industry in Nepal.”

☆ 'Death zone' queues feared on Everest as Nepal grants record climbing permits
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/2] A general view of the Everest base camp taken from a drone, in Nepal April 24, 2023. So far, Nepal has handed out a record 463 permits to climb Everest between March and May, beating 2021's 409. Climbing is a key earner for the poor country, where about 500,000 people are employed in tourism, including climbing, and the number of permits has been rising steadily. So far this year, Nepal has granted permits to 1,046 climbers for 24 peaks, earning the government $5.6 million, of which $5 million came from Everest alone. He said the government was considering introducing a requirement for climbers to scale at least one 6,000-metre peak in Nepal before attempting Everest.

☆ Ether has been climbing ahead of its planned 'Shanghai' tech upgrade. Here's what the event could mean for crypto investors
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Ether rose last week as investors looked ahead to the Ethereum network's next big tech upgrade. "And greater participation in ETH staking strengthens the security of the Ethereum network as a whole." Data from CryptoQuant suggests any sell pressure would be low, however. Currently, however, the majority of the ETH staked (54%, or 9.7 million ETH) is currently at a loss, the firm said. "Given there's a limited amount of participants that can exit in a day, this sell pressure will not be as instant or violent as advertised by some commentators," he said.

☆ Adidas event shut down by protestors as factory wages become hot-button issue for the sneaker and garment industry
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Protestors on Thursday disrupted an event featuring Rupert Campbell, Adidas' top US executiveThe protestors allege Adidas has not paid Asian contract factory workers and demanded payment. A speaker rose roughly 40 minutes into the one-hour event and demanded Adidas pay wages he alleged are owed to contract factory workers in countries including Cambodia and Indonesia. The $11.7 million allegedly owed to Adidas workers comes from a report produced by trade unions and other industry groups. Before protestors disrupted the event, Adidas North American President Rupert spoke about his childhood and his career path. Ballinger noted several recent instances of factory workers getting restitution for unpaid wages, including at a Nike contract factory in Cambodia.

☆ What it's like to climb up and ski down Makalu, the world's 5th-highest mountain
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Almost 28,000 feet, Makalu is just 12 miles away from Mount Everest — a mountain Ballinger has climbed several times, along with K2, the world's second-tallest mountain. But at Makalu, Ballinger wasn't there only to climb — he was making his third attempt to be the first person to ski down from the summit of the world's fifth-tallest mountain. Ballinger spent a year preparing to ski Makalu"Once I decided I wanted to try, I spent a year at home of focus, dedicated training, working towards being ready to try to ski Makalu," Ballinger said. From left, Dorji Sonam Sherpa, Sherpa Sirdar (lead sherpa), Ballinger, Phu Rita Sherpa. At base camp, Ballinger and his fellow climbers are fed by a Nepali chef who prepares fresh meat, vegetables, and fruit.

☆ CEO who summitted Mt. Everest 8 times: How to achieve success without chasing risks
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Few people understand both of those concepts better than Adrian Ballinger, the 46-year-old founder and CEO of Alpenglow Expeditions. A climbing guide for the past 25 years, Ballinger has led more than 150 international climbing expeditions across six continents. He's scaled Mount Everest eight times and in May, he recorded the first-ever fully ski descent of Nepal's Makalu — the world's fifth-highest peak, at more than 27,000 feet. 'There's no such thing' as completely avoiding riskIn business, as in mountain climbing, "there's no such thing" as completely avoiding risks, Ballinger says. After all, he passed up a career in the medical field to become a mountain climbing guide in 1997, and struck out on his own to launch Alpenglow in 2004.

☆ This mountaineer spent $10,000 to launch a company that guides people up Mount Everest—now it brings in $3 million a year
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Adrian Ballinger has summited Mount Everest eight times. Alpenglow's prices can range from $275 for an introductory mountaineering course to up to $98,000 per person for a guided expedition up Mount Everest. Mountain climbing and entrepreneurship are both risky endeavors that require mental and physical resilience to succeed, Ballinger says. Source: Alpenglow ExpeditionsBy 2004, Ballinger wanted to branch out on his own. "That first year, I only guided two expeditions that I think had a total of, maybe, eight clients," Ballinger says.

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