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Kenneth Kamler, Md is a surgeon who also climbs mountains. He was team doctor on three expeditions to the top of Mount Everest, including the disastrous 1996 trip during which 6 people died. Kamler is both storyteller and advisor in his book, Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World - A Personal Account including the 1996 Disaster. (The Lyons Press) Blackened limbs due to severe frostbite were the least of his troubles. I-V fluids are frozen solid, and abrasions cannot heal at such high altitudes. Kamler's day job is Director of the Hand Treatment Center in Hyde Park, New York, where he is a microsurgeon. He's done research on telemedicine for NASA and Yale Medical School.

The time has come to an end for the @sweden Twitter account. As NPR reported in 2015, it was passed from person to person each week.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with reporter Michael Schmidt about accountability — a word that's likely to come up often next week, as Hillary Clinton faces the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

The drone strike came after a week of building tension between the U.S. and Iran. Here's what is known from public accounts.

Police departments across the country have adopted body cameras to counter claims of abuse. But as they become more routine, cameras are turning into key tools for prosecutors.

A corner of the tech world may be due for a reckoning: the gaming industry. Rachel Martin talks to Brianna Wu, a key figure in "Gamergate," a 2014 campaign of threats targeting women in the industry.

As the church works through its sex-abuse crisis, the Vatican is struggling to figure out how to hold cardinals and bishops accountable, investigative journalist Jason Berry tells NPR's Scott Simon.

Even if your health insurance is provided by an employer, your plan may be changing quite a bit in 2015. Here's a guide to the questions you should keep in mind when looking over your options.

Wordle players get six chances to guess a five-letter word. On social media, people share a graphic that shows how they got their answer, without the answer. The spoiler has been banned from Twitter.