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SWITZERLAND Inferno Under The Mountain Two trucks crashed head on, starting a fire in the Gotthard Tunnel that killed at least 11 people. Thick black smoke billowed out of the 16-km tunnel as the blaze, fueled by a load of tires on one of the trucks, reached 980?C, causing part of the tunnel roof to collapse. More than 1.2 million truckers, as well as millions of holidaymakers, use the Gotthard Tunnel every year. The accident is likely to stiffen opposition to the reopening of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, closed in March 1999 after a truck fire killed 39. three...
...youre writing this column and we’ve already used “The Big Laborsky” about ten times, what do you do with that? Dante Balestracci calmly grabbed another interception—and this week, it counted. “Dante’s Inferno?” Please! That...
...north tower's workers began streaming out of stairwells and into the streets, Lutnick asked which floors they had come from. "And someone would say, '55,'" he recalled. The number kept rising, along with his hopes. What Lutnick didn't know was that the inferno below his employees had sealed off all avenues of escape. A group of them were gathered around a speakerphone talking to colleagues in the U.S. and overseas when the jet struck. Chaos erupted, and the line went dead. Other workers, including Lutnick's younger brother Gary, phoned their families to tell them goodbye...
When Erik and the team began the final ascent from Camp 4--the camp he describes as Dante's Inferno with ice and wind--they had been on the mountain for two months, climbing up and down and then up from Base Camp to Camps 1, 2 and 3, getting used to the altitude and socking away enough equipment--especially oxygen canisters--to make a summit push. They had tried for the summit once but had turned back because of weather. At 29,000 ft., the Everest peak is in the jet stream, which means that winds can exceed...
...When Erik and the team began the final ascent from Camp 4?the camp he describes as Dante's Inferno with ice and wind?they had been on the mountain for two months, climbing up and down and then up from Base Camp to Camps 1, 2 and 3, getting used to the altitude and socking away enough equipment?especially oxygen canisters?to make a summit push. They had tried for the summit once but had turned back because of weather. At 29,000 ft., the Everest peak is in the jet stream, which means that winds can exceed...