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This story of a 1985 Andes mountain-climbing disaster comes courtesy of director Kevin MacDonald, whose film One Day in September won the Oscar for Best Documentary a few years ago. But in the vein of his last work, Touching the Void is not a clear-cut documentary; the events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones...
...years, Harvard students looking for some casual exercise have gazed longingly across the river. Surpressing visions of clean, spacious and uncrowded weightrooms and row upon row of beautiful, unused treadmills—located in exercise facilities meant specifically for athletes—these students climb the stairs of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) with a tinge of frustration. Waiting in line for treadmills isn’t too soothing either. And with each new, monolithic athletic building that appeared in Allston, the vast disparity between Harvard’s exercise facilities for athletes and those meant for everyone else...
This story of a 1985 Andes mountain-climbing disaster comes courtesy of director Kevin MacDonald, whose film One Day in September won the Oscar for Best Documentary a few years ago. But in the vein of his last work, Touching the Void is not a clear-cut documentary; the events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones...
...third game saw the Crimson grab the first point before NYU kicked its game into gear, rolling off a seven-point run which put Harvard in a hole it could not climb...
...coming away with a sweep this weekend. Scrap the plans to head to Columbia, Dartmouth or the South Pacific and travel to Boston instead. Help make Lavietes an inhospitable environment for the Ivy leader. Help turn Princeton’s victory lap down the Champs-Elysees into a treacherous climb through the Pyrenees...