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For more than a week now, Spaniard Oscar Pérez has been alone on the wall of ice and rock that is Latok II. The 33-year-old mountaineer fell while attempting to summit the notoriously difficult peak in northeast Pakistan's Karakorum range, breaking his leg and possibly...
Particularly because of how it feels to freeze to death. You write that by the end, many people are ripping at their neck and tearing their clothes off. That's sometimes called paradoxical undressing. As people are becoming very cold and their muscles are failing, there seems to be this...
In such a large cast, Pitt all but disappears into his mountaineer accent and laconic sadism; the other Basterds are mere war-film window dressing. This conflict is fought mainly between nasty Nazis and resourceful women. In her slinky dresses and fancy footwear (sometimes just one shoe), Kruger is steely...
Of course, still-undefeated Chris Pizzotti is the Crimson’s actual quarterback. However, with a little luck, we could have watched Appalachian State’s Armanti Edwards marshal Harvard’s offense. The Heisman dark horse was recruited by Harvard, but he ultimately decided to spurn...
For one who had reached such a lofty height, he was a strange mix of confidence and modesty. A beekeeper from New Zealand, Sir Edmund Hillary was an aggressive amateur mountaineer drawn, he said, by the appeal of "grinding [competitors] into the ground on a big hill." Yet after accomplishing...