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Thursday, at noon, at The Spokesman-Review , John and Jess Roskelley will talk about summiting Mount Everest on May 21. Jess, at age 20, is the youngest American so far to reach the summit. John, his dad, should require no introduction as one of America's best alpinists ever.

We're all here asking the same questions and wondering the same things. Who are the victims? Where are they from? How did the accident occur? Does anyone have any concrete answers to these questions? How about good Web links? tvforbc.com? --- Whether you know it or not, you are engaging in a form of self-published news media yourselves by posting on this board.