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...leaps themselves, Boenish quickly points out) is illegal. One of the great early jumps, from which springs the present fad of BASE (for Buildings, Antenna towers, Spans and Earth) jumping was made in 1970 by Rick Sylvester. He skied off of Yosemite's 7,569-ft. El Capitan, popped a chute and floated down to the meadow below. Some 120 bandit jumps followed, and finally, in 1980, the park grudgingly began handing out permits, a futile and short-lived exercise in imposing bureaucracy on a sport that is inherently anarchic. Boenish, said to be among the more responsible BASE...
Land Leasing. Under Watt the federal acreage leased for oil exploration has more than doubled; land leased to coal companies has quintupled. Conservationists worry, for example, about the lease hastily granted last fall for drilling beneath New Mexico's Capitan Wilderness. Critics also say it is unwise to auction coal properties during a market glut...
Eric Klaussen should not be forced to live on the horizontal plane. The captain of the ski team is more comfortable on the inclines, whether it be climbing El Capitan or Yosemite's Half Dome, skiing Squaw Valley or Tuckerman's ravine, or even hurtling down the Rockies on a skateboard...
...oldest play it has brought back was John Philip Sousa's El Capitan (1896); the newest was The Happy Time (1968), which preceded Little Johnny Jones (1904) this season. "We are trying to build a national theater," says Executive Director Michael Price. "And we have chosen as our mission the American musical. We are not going to let those wonderful works just sit on the shelf...
Professional climbers, including Beverly Johnson, who was the first woman to scale Yosemite's El Capitan by herself, were recruited for the high work. They doubled for actors and assisted cameramen who were lashed to precarious ledges. Everyone was ferried up by helicopters borrowed from an Army Reserve unit, and most of the crew worked 14-hour days over a period of six weeks. Several chose to remain overnight in a cave on the rock face. "There was one guy who was like a human fly," marvels Captain Richard Dominy, the commander of the copter unit. "He liked...