A report from the Summit of the Americas (“Obama in historic talks with Castro but Cuban leader in no mood for a US love-in”, News, last week, page 5) referred to the Union of South American Nations (Usan) as a regional body representing every nation in the hemisphere except the US and Canada. That should have been the 33-member Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac). Usan, or Unasur, is a union of 12 nations of the Southern Cone.
“A step too far” (New Review, last week, page 8) described the old Everest basecamp trail from Jiri in Nepal as the way that George Mallory and Edmund Hillary walked in. It was certainly the route of Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, but Mallory and the mountaineering expeditions that attempted the summit in the 1920s went in through Tibet, as Nepal was closed to westerners at the time.
A Comment article, “It’s not just these new pylons that blight our land” (last week, page 37), said the pylons are white, the competition to design them low key and that National Grid chairman, Peter Gershon, advises the Tory party. National Grid has asked us to make clear that the pylons are grey, the competition was promoted internationally by the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Department for Energy and Climate Change and National Grid, with judges eminent in their fields. And Peter Gershon has not advised the Conservative party since 2010.
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