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   TOP STORY    Updated: 11:56 am CST Dec 26, 2008
story image Best of ExplorersWeb 2008 Awards: Red flares for freedom, Alberto Peruffo

Over the years emails between ExplorersWeb and Italian climber Alberto Peruffo would regard mountains such as Rakaposhi or Kanjut Sar. That all changed this spring.

There was a crackdown in Tibet. Himalaya peaks were shut one by one. Alberto went to the legendary University of Padova, to seek counsel of a Luminary of International Law at the Center for Human Rights.

Leaving Professor Antonio Papisca's studio, "I thought to myself," the artist/climber said, "something must be done, ideas that seem crazy must come to life."..
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