Jonathan Knight, editor of the Cool Camping series of guidebooks, believes there is a new breed of campers taking advantage of these luxury sites.

BBC: Rapid rise of 'luxury' campsites

In September of that year, convinced that the Times had become lethargic, Sulzberger chose Howell Raines, a distinctly hot personality who had been running the editorial pages, to succeed Joseph Lelyveld, a preternaturally cool Times lifer, as executive editor.

NEWYORKER: Changing Times

"I don't know why otherwise cool and calculating people lose their heads in the mountains, but they do, " says Richard Kahl, editor of Ski Area Management magazine.

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