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Despite the balmy spring weather, Bostonians have been flocking to the far end of the Charles to face the elements at the Museum of Science's epic IMAX extravaganza, "Everest." With 10 times the surface area of regular film, "Everest" brings the Himalayas to Cambridge. Audience members experience the treachery of crevasses and the power of an avalanche without having to don a stitch of Gore-Tex. Set against a backdrop of incredible nature shots and panoramic views, the film tracks the adventures of a team of climbers headed by Boston's own David Breashears. The film focuses...
...addition to providing fodder for some mind-boggling shots, the varied backgrounds and aspirations of the climbers give Everest a personal element rarely found on the IMAX screen. As the movie unfolds the audience finds itself rooting for the climbers--pushing Norgay to follow in his father's footsteps and Segarra to make history. While this aspect of the film was planned, the most emotional portion of the movie was the product of a tragic accident...
...Race for Atlantis. It may be just an optical illusion, but the new attraction at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace is a real breakthrough, the first ride to marry the computer-generated gyrations of a state-of-the-art motion simulator with the immersive wide-screen splendor of an IMAX film. For $9.50, racers wearing 3-D headsets are enveloped in fog and 14,000 watts of digital sound for 6 min. of stomach-churning visceral reality that puts to shame its crosstown rival, Star Trek: The Experience. Even the gods would be impressed...
Climbing continued after May 10. An American, Ed Viesturs, who was making a movie for IMAX, reported passing the bodies of his friends Fischer and Hall. One other death, a South African whose colleagues let him climb past his turnaround time, brought the fatalities for the season to 12. If that number is compared with the 84 people who summitted, Krakauer observes dryly, "1996 was actually a safer-than-average year...
...didn't really lose it until we were delivered to an IMAX theater to watch a tourist movie on the Canyon. Here we had one of the great natural wonders of the world, the story of which began billions of years ago, and all that these intrepid filmmakers could think to portray were four 19th century cowboys navigating the Canyon's rapids...