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...when he was making his first solo climb of an Alpine peak, Mont Blanc in France, Naomi Uemura found himself tumbling into a crevasse that had been hidden by a layer of snow. "I thought, 'What a place to die,' " the Japanese explorer later recalled." 'So far away from home.' " But he managed to struggle out, and thereafter on big climbs, he always carried a pair of sturdy 17-ft.-long bamboo poles to test the snow...
Indeed, the diminutive (5-ft. 3-in., 135-lb.) Uemura had been facing outsize dangers for nearly two decades. The unassuming farmer's son took up mountain climbing while studying agriculture at Tokyo's Meiji University. He became a national hero in 1970 when, as a member of the first Japanese team to successfully climb Mount Everest, he was the first to reach the 29,028-ft. peak. But his most rewarding feats were those performed, as he once put it, "in all the splendor of solitude." He explained, "It is a test of myself, and one thing...
...medal out of reach. Bitterly disappointed, Blumberg and Seibert plan to retire. Said Seibert: "I still feel that what we did was important and is the right direction for ice dancing to follow. But if only Torvill and Dean can do it, then how is anybody else to climb any higher, expand the sport any further...
...scene, the secretary (Fanny Ardant) has just found a mysterious scrap of paper in a wastebasket of a hotel room Mme. Vercel once stayed in. Wandering out into a strange neighborhood, she walks a few blocks, then happens to climb a high wooden fence, behind which an announcer for a horse race happens, just at that moment, to call out the cryptic words that--surprise--happened to be scribbled on the note. This happens again and again; the movie, in fact, stops just short of producing the name of the murderer as a cerealbox prize. Consequently, Vercel and company...
...repeatedly resort to grandiose gestures and profound philosophical statements when simple actions would suffice. Dreyfuss doesn't need literally to cast his manuscripts out to sea and let them blow in the wind to convince us that he is through with writing, just as Sarandon doesn't need to climb into bed with her son to convince us the world is unjust...