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...Skied Down Everest...
...East Africa (where Land Rover safaris past Kilimanjaro and across the Serengeti plain were the major method of instruction), the year concluded at Jaeger's villa overlooking the Mediterranean at Sperlonga, Italy. Only a few of the students--one a woman who remained in a Sherpa village near Mt. Everest--failed to join the rest for the final week of the school. The week was given over to thesis writing (or dancing, or narrating) for those concerned about academic credit when they returned to their respective colleges...
...muttering, when his partner intoned the ritualistic "and the winner is ... ," "Indiana 86, Michigan 68" into the mike. It was the happiest night of the expected number of lives, and one of the producers of an award-winning documentary about a crazed Japanese who skied down the flank of Everest came out with the most richly bogus solemnity of the evening: "I just wanna thank my mother, the man and the mountain...
Luckily, there are a couple of generous compensations. Carole Shelley is so stingingly sarcastic as Ruth that the scenery shrivels. As Sarah, the super-housewife, Estelle Parsons yaps through the trilogy like an angry Peke. Funny is as useless a word to describe them as high is for Everest...
Twelve years later the amputated toes of two of the climbers serve to remind them of the costly mistake they made by reaching the summit of Everest just before sundown. Unable to return along the ridge in the darkness, they huddled together through the night against the cold. Their toes didn't bother them till they returned to base camp three days later and their feet began to thaw. Because of the pain in their toes they had to be carried down by porters...